osgi-bundle

I decided to build an application on top of OSGI and Karaf - I really like this stuff. However, I'm struggling a bit with a daily deployment on my local, development machine. I mean.. I make a change and then I would like to test it on my local Karaf instance. And it can happen like couple times per hour. The way I'm doing it now is a maven build that creates a JAR bundle and then it's copied into the Karaf's deploy directory. I think that it isn't elegant at all. I was trying to find a way around (google). I read about Karaf's features but it seems that despite the fact that it is a nice

I have put a few jars on my Bundle-Classpath. The line below shows the entry in my pom.xml, which uses the Felix plugin to create the manigest.mf for the bundle. <Bundle-ClassPath>.,lib/com.springsource.org.h2-1.0.71.jar,lib/com.springsource.org.apache.lucene-2.3.2.jar,lib/com.springsource.org.apache.lucene.search-2.3.2.jar</Bundle-ClassPath> These jars have classes which import packages, but from what I can see, they all have a MANIFEST.MF, which has it's own (accurate) list of Import-Package statements. However, when I build my project (using Maven and the bundle plugin), it reports an error

I have a modular application which uses OSGi framework. Here I'm using org.eclipse.equinox.common_3.4.0 OSGi container. So now the application is already running with all the osgi bundles installed and active and I am displaying all the active OSGi bundles on the UI, by looping though a hash map, based on some action. Now the requirement is, while the application is already running, I want to instal a new OSGi bundle, from a file system, by giving this new bundle to the application's OSGi container so that it will start this bundle. How do I achieve this ? I have tried reading the OSGi bundle

I am trying to programatically start an OSGi framework (preferably Equinox) from Java and then load up any bundles. So I was going through this article which says how to do that. But I am getting java.util.NoSuchElementException everytime at the below line everytime ServiceLoader.load(FrameworkFactory.class).iterator().next(); Below is the code- import java.io.File; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.LinkedHashMap; import java.util.Map; import java.util.ServiceLoader; import java.util.logging.Logger; import org.osgi.framework.Bundle; import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext; import org