[XBEAN-163] Equinox BundleClassLoader implementation that translates "bundle" urls into "jar" urls

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.8
• Fix Version/s: 3.8
• Component/s: bundleutils
• Assignee: Jarek Gawor
• Reporter: Jarek Gawor
• Created: 05/Feb/11 05:45
• Updated: 06/Feb/11 05:23
• Resolved: 06/Feb/11 05:23

Description

A number of 3rd party libraries expect that URLs returned by ClassLoader.getResource() or ClassLoader.getResources() are either "jar" or "file" type of URLs. In OSGi ClassLoader.getResource() or ClassLoader.getResources() return a "bundle" URL which is an OSGi framework specific URL.

It would be nice to have a Bundle ClassLoader implementation that could automatically return the "jar" or "file" URLs.

On Equinox it is possible to translate the "bundle" URLs into "jar" URLs using the URLConverter service.