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Overriding packages exposed by org.eclipse.osgi [message #903568]

Fri, 24 August 2012 11:28

Kevin Milburn

Messages: 13
Registered: July 2012

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I need to use Xerces 2.11.0 in an RCP application, which requires updated versions of the javax.xml and org.w3c.dom pacakges, but attempting to use them is causing problems.

If I add Xerces and xml-apis bundles to my plugin, I can use the correct Xerces parser, but it ultimately fails with:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/ElementTraversal

This fails because, the ClassLoader is attempting to find the class in org.eclipse.osgi, which as it draws from the Java runtime (JavaSE 1.7), does not have it.

I've tried overriding the org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation property to prevent some exposure of the packages, which is partially successful. However, if I get my plugin to use my xml-apis bundle first, it then fails with

java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: loader (instance of org/eclipse/osgi/internal/baseadaptor/DefaultClassLoader) previously initiated loading for a different type with name "org/w3c/dom/Document"

If I attempt to remove the packages from org.osgi.framework.system.packages the app won't start as other parts of the system don't know about my xml-apis bundle. Is there any to do so?

I've also tried adding Xerces to the endorsed libs, this is mostly successfull, but appears to break parts of the WTP, and it doesn't feel right to have to do this in the OSGi world.

Is there some other way to get this to work that I've missed, or any other pointers that could help?

TIA

Edit: changing the org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation wasn't necessary, just putting the xml-apis bundle before org.eclipse.core.runtime is enough to trigger the LinkageError.

[Updated on: Fri, 24 August 2012 12:26]

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Re: Overriding packages exposed by org.eclipse.osgi [message #903639 is a reply to message #903568]

Fri, 24 August 2012 15:44

Martin Skorsky

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You can use Require-Bundle for the Xerces bundle with a version range [2.11.0,3.0.0).

If the Xerces bundle exports the packages with version 2.11, you can alternatively use Import-Package with a version range.

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Re: Overriding packages exposed by org.eclipse.osgi [message #904538 is a reply to message #903639]

Tue, 28 August 2012 16:28

Kevin Milburn

Messages: 13
Registered: July 2012

Junior Member

In my plugin I do have the Required-Bundle on the appropriate versions of the Xerces and xml-apis bundles, but it turns out the problem was that the Xerces bundles didn't have the xml-apis as a required bundle.

While this solves the problem with using Xerces directly, a third party bundle doesn't explicity require Xerces, but does implicitly rely on the latest xml-apis, as such I can't modify its Required Bundles (without resorting to repackaging it). One trick I have found that appears to resolve this is adding the xml-apis bundle to the osgi.framework.extension property, but that feels a bit hacky.

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