[WW-3958] Struts2 OSGi plugin does not work with GlassFish

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.15
• Component/s: Other

Environment

GlassFish 3.1.2.2

• Assignee: Lukasz Lenart
• Reporter: Christina Kaskoura
• Created: 09/Jan/13 08:21
• Updated: 24/Jun/13 09:24
• Resolved: 21/May/13 14:16

Description

The OSGi plugin does not work with GlassFish where Felix is already included. When including in the Struts web application a bundle containing an activator class the following exception occurs:

java.lang.ClassCastException: myosgi.Activator cannot be cast to org.osgi.framework.BundleActivator

while when including a bundle with a class which implements BundleContextAware the following exception occurs:

Exception starting filter struts2 java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: loader (instance of org/apache/felix/framework/searchpolicy/ContentClassLoader) previously initiated loading for a different type with name "org/osgi/framework/BundleContext"

It also seems that the plugin uses an old version of Felix which could be (at least partly) responsible for the errors since GlassFish uses a newer one.

More details on the errors also available in this stackoverflow post

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: WW-4074 Prepare sample OSGi application