[equinox-dev] buddy classloading & bundle activation

["Tom Huybrechts" <tom.huybrechts@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi all,

me again with a buddy classloading issue...

If a bundle does buddy classloading, then the classloading magic will
try to load the requested class from each bundle in a given set (all,
dependent, registered, ...). If any of these bundles has a
Eclipse-AutoStart header they will be started, even if they don't have
that class. In the worst case, with a global buddy policy and a
non-existent class, every AutoStart bundle will be activated.

Is this intended behaviour, or should these bundles only be started
when a class is really loaded ?

Tom