unable to satisfy dependency from com.lmax.disruptor 3.2.0 to package sun.misc 0.0.0

Question

I am developing an eclipse plugin which needs an com.lmax.disruptor.It imports sun.misc. I have this in my p2 repository but when I maven build my plugin I am getting this e

Answer 1

As mentioned in oberlies' answer in the question you link to, you need to build a system bundle fragment, which exposes, i.e., exports, the sun.misc package. I don't know of any other way. However, this is easier than could be expected.

You do this by creating an OSGi MANIFEST.MF that exports sun.misc, and then bundle it into a fragment. This is done via Maven as follows.

    4.0.0
      your.group
      1.0.0

    your.group.fragment.sun.misc
    jar
    System Bundle Fragment exporting sun.misc

    This bundle extends the System Bundle export list with the sun.misc package such that OSGi bundles may refer to Sun's misc implementation without the OSGi framework itself to provide it in a non-portable way.

    
        
            
                maven-jar-plugin
                
                    true
                    
                        ${project.build.outputDirectory}/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
                        
                            sun.misc
                        
                    
                
            
            
                org.apache.felix
                maven-bundle-plugin
                2.5.4
                
                    
                        bundle-manifest
                        process-classes
                        
                            manifest
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        your.group
                        system.bundle; extension:=framework
                    
                
            

        
    

Run mvn clean install on this POM. Now you need to make the fragment consumable for Tycho, i.e., you need to make it available via a p2 Software Site.

Thankfully there is a great Maven plugin which can help with that: reficio's p2-maven-plugin. You can use it to basically wrap any mavenized JAR into an OSGi bundle and then provide it via a p2 site.

Set up the respective POM as follows.

  4.0.0
  sun-misc-p2
  site
  1.0.0
  pom

  
            
                
                    org.reficio
                    p2-maven-plugin
                    1.1.1
                    
                        
                            default-cli
                            
                                
                                    
                                    
                                    com.lmax:disruptor:3.3.2
                                    your.group:your.group.fragment.sun.misc:1.0.0
                                
                            
                        
                    
                
                
                    org.mortbay.jetty
                    jetty-maven-plugin
                    8.1.5.v20120716
                    
                        10
                        ${basedir}/target/repository/
                        
                            /site
                        
                   
                
            
        
        
            
                reficio
                http://repo.reficio.org/maven/
            
         

Note that I use this plugin to provide the LMAX Disruptor (version 3.3.2, the latest one at the time of writing, is thankfully available from Maven Central).

Run mvn p2:site on the POM. This will create a p2 site containing the sun.misc fragment at {project-folder}/target/repository.

This p2 repository - and with it the sun.misc fragment - can now be added to your target platform, and hence used in your Tycho build.

This should fix it, and - to answer your question if "there is any possible way [you] can add in [your] plugin itself" - this is the only possible way to do it (I know of).

The sources are also available at https://github.com/newcodeontheblock/eclipse-rcp-with-async-logging. The whole procedure is also described in more detail in this - my - blog post about using async Log4j 2 loggers in an Eclipse RCP.