Question

How to deactivate current bundle if in its activate method is thrown particular exception?

    public void activate(BundleContext bundleContext) {
        try{
             if(something) throw new Exception(); 
        } catch(Exception e) {
             //deactivate bundle... 
        }
    }

Answer 1

I’m assuming that you’re talking about Declarative Service components, in that case, you can just let the activate method throw an exception (perhaps wrapping it inside a runtime exception), in that case the component won’t be activated.

You should realize that the DS runtime might try to activate it more than once, though.

There is a pretty similar question here