Cannot use External Jars with Equinox

[Joey Kirkland]

Update:
I've since fixed this...I wasn't putting my classpath jars in the actual jar I was building. That fixed my issue.


Hello,

Now that I have managed to get Equinox to work, I am running into a different problem.

I have a bunch of external jars(around 10) that I use for one of my bundles. For example, I use the commons-lang3-3.1.jar for various things. When I run my OSGi framework in Eclipse - it all works great. I just need to make sure I add them to my bundle's class path.

However, when I execute it outside of Eclipse, it throws java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: errors. I'm not sure why this is happening.

I've done a bit of research and it seems that I have really two options:

1. Place the jar file in the root directory of my bundle (in this case, the bundle's jar file), and then make sure that the manifest file has a proper Export-Package on it.
I have tried this - and it still cannot find the jar.
2. Make a bundle of the jar file, and install that, ensuring all dependencies are resolved. THIS does NOT work for jar files. However, if I copy the actual source and use that instead of a jar file within the bundle, then it works. But I won't be able to do this for all of my jars since the source isn't present and I don't want to have to build every single external jar I use...

I'm pretty new to OSGi, and any help would be useful.

The below is from option 1:
Stacktrace:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils
        at ats.server.ATSActivator.start(ATSActivator.java:58)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$1.run(BundleContextImpl.java:783)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:774)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:755)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:370)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.start(AbstractBundle.java:284)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.start(AbstractBundle.java:276)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkCommandProvider._start(FrameworkCommandProvider.java:252)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkCommandInterpreter.execute(FrameworkCommandInterpreter.java:155)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkConsole.docommand(FrameworkConsole.java:156)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkConsole.runConsole(FrameworkConsole.java:141)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkConsole.run(FrameworkConsole.java:105)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils
        at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:506)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:422)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:410)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:107)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        ... 18 more

Here is the manifest file:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Name: ATS
Bundle-SymbolicName: ATS
Bundle-Version: 1.0.0.1
Bundle-Activator: ats.server.ATSActivator
Private-Package: org.apache.commons.lang3,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.builder,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.concurrent,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.event,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.exception,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.math,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.mutable,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.text,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.time,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple
Import-Package: ats_socketer,
 org.apache.commons.lang3,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.builder,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.concurrent,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.event,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.exception,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.math,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.mutable,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.text,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.time,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple,
 org.osgi.framework;version="1.3.0"
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6
Bundle-ClassPath: .,
 ../.,
 akuma-1.8.jar,
 ATSMailer.jar,
 commons-lang3-3.1.jar,
 junit-4.3.1.jar,
 mail.jar,
 pewParser.jar,
 platform-3.4.0.jar
Require-Bundle: ATS_Socketer;bundle-version="1.0.0"
Export-Package: org.apache.commons.lang3,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.builder,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.concurrent,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.event,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.exception,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.math,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.mutable,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.text,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.time,
 org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple

The .jar file is in the root directory of this bundle. It is in included in the class path and the export...I also see it in the packages command:

org.apache.commons.lang3; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.builder; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.concurrent; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.event; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.exception; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.math; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.mutable; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.text; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.time; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>
org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple; version="0.0.0"<ATS_1.0.0.1 [14]>

I am confused as to why this doesn't work - it can be seen by the framework - my bundle just can't load it!!

Thanks.