There have been a couple of times where I've been using systems where the
package/class that I'm trying to use is being loaded dynamically.
For example, the 'standard' way to use a JDBC driver is something like this:
String driverName = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
Class.forName(driverName);
Or in the case of Jaxb and using JAXBContext with a marshaller:
JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance( contextName);
In both these cases I've had a really hard time forcing the bnd ant task to
have Imports for the packages I need. Including them like this doesn't work:
Import-Package: oracle.jdbc.driver.*
Instead I've had to explicitly create a 'fake' instance of the Driver
(literally, new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver()) so that it's included in the
imports and then bnd seems to be able to pick it up.
There has got to be a better way. What am I missing?
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Joel Schuster
Senior Software Engineer
NAVSYS Corporation
14960 Woodcarver Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80921
719-481-4877
