Re: [equinox-dev] Using 3PartyLibs in OSGi

[Neil Bartlett <njbartlett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Christian,

Note that in general you do NOT have to write a bundle activator to  
use a 3rd party library, you merely need to add metadata describing  
what the library is and what its imports and exports are. Furthermore  
a lot of this metadata can be generated automatically either by  
Eclipse (as described by Toni) or using Peter Kriens' bnd tool:

http://www.aqute.biz/Code/Bnd

Regards
Neil

On 17 May 2007, at 10:26, Toni Menzel wrote:

> Today it's pretty likely you have to migrate your 3rd party jar  
> into an osgi bundle.
> Because of that its quite common and there are plenty different ways:
> Actually you "just" need to inject an osgi friendly MANIFEST.MF so  
> you "export" the packages you want to export from the jars.
> Because this is the equinox mailinglist i would refer to the build- 
> in capability of eclipse:
> --> new project --> plugin development --> plug-in for existing jar  
> archives
> (remember, bundles are osgi bundles)
>
> hope this helps?
>
> regards,
> Toni
>
> Christian Voigtmann schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it possible to use 3PartyLibs which are not originally designed  
> > for OSGi, that means without bundle activator. For example the  
> > Protege, Jena, Axis or own APIs which are working fine under J2SE !??
> >
> > Is there a way to use them with the OSGi Framework !!
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Christian
> >
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