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

Here is an example if you are using the Maven Bundle Plugin.

Note: This plugin automatically imports packages that your dependencies need. This may or may not be a problem for you. Thankfully, you can suppress the packages you don't really need to import (see below).

    
        
        !org.apache.jackrabbit.test,
        *
    
    
        lib/concurrent-1.3.4.jar,
        lib/jackrabbit-core-2.6.5.jar,
        lib/jackrabbit-spi-2.6.5.jar,
        lib/jackrabbit-spi-commons-2.6.5.jar,
        lib/lucene-core-3.6.0.jar,
        lib/tika-core-1.3.jar
    
    
        .,
        concurrent-1.3.4.jar,
        jackrabbit-core-2.6.5.jar,
        jackrabbit-spi-2.6.5.jar,
        jackrabbit-spi-commons-2.6.5.jar,
        lucene-core-3.6.0.jar,
        tika-core-1.3.jar