Better handling of Thread Context ClassLoader in OSGi

Question

I\'ve been using OSGi for a while now and I have various solutions to the problems I encountered. I wanted to revisit one of these and see if people had come up with differe

Answer 1

Great question, we've been doing the same work around (in Felix/Karaf/Servicemix4.2) and have been searching for a better solution. Here is the response that I got back from the Felix team...

http://old.nabble.com/Can-the-thread-context-classloader-issue-be-solved-at-all--td28260809.html#a30704352

Essentially, they say that there isn't a better solution at the moment.

However, I do see that Equinox references some other options including "Buddy Policies" and using a "Context Finder" here...

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Context_Class_Loader_Enhancements

If anyone knows of other options or even a roadmap to resolve this in the future, please let us know...