OSGI - handling 3rd party JARs required by a bundle

Question

I\'m just getting started with OSGI development and am struggling to understand how best to handle dependant JARs.

i.e. if I\'m creating a bundle the likelyhood is t

Answer 1

You can include a third party jar inside your bundle by adding the third party jar to the root directory of the bundle jar file and then adding a bundle classpath header to the bundle's manifest, e.g.:

Bundle-ClassPath: .,my3rdparty.jar

If you want to place third party jar to subdirectory, specify the path without using heading ./, e.g

Bundle-ClassPath: .,lib/my3rdparty.jar # (not ./lib/my3rdparty.jar)