How to auto-start/eager start OSGi services on Eclipse platform

Question

I develop an Eclipse RCP application which makes heavy use of OSGi bundles which provide services for later use. The use case requires the bundles to register their services

Answer 1

MANIFEST.MF has this:

Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy

This could be also useful:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Lazy_Start_Bundles#Should_I_change_to_the_new_Bundle-ActivationPolicy_Header.3F

However I would say I would try relying on OSGI activation as much as possible. If there is no other way of solving your problem, then the previous link might help.