[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Build path access to jar inside bundle

[Ankur Sharma <sharma.ankur@xxxxxxxxx>]

Philipp wrote:
> Hello
> I want to add an OSGi bundle in the build path, so that I can develop 
> with the libs which will be available when the app will be deployed on 
> OSGi. The bundle in question is servlet.jar as prepared by the Oscar 
> team (http://oscar-osgi.sf.net/repo/servlet/servlet.jar).
>
> The structure of this bundle is, that it contains a manifest and a 
> javax.servlet.jar. The manifest, exports the relevant packages and the 
> internal classpath points to the jar.
> <manifest>
> (...)
> Bundle-ClassPath: javax.servlet.jar
> Export-Package: javax.servlet;specification-version=2.3.0,javax.servle
>  t.http;specification-version=2.3.0,javax.servlet.jsp;specification-ve
>  rsion=2.3.0
> </manifest>
>
> When I add this bundle to the build path in eclipse, it can't resolve 
> the classes (for example javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest).
>
> How can I make Eclipse find those classes which are in a jar in an OSGi 
> bundle?
>
> Best regards
> Philipp


How are you adding the bundle to build path? I suggest you do it using the Manifest Editor -> Dependencies page. Add your bundle here in "Required Plug-ins".

hth,
Ankur..