Question

I am running a very simple osgi bundle whose activator looks like this

 public void start(BundleContext bundleContext) throws Exception {
    JAXBContext con =  JAXBContext.newInstance(Activator.class);
 }

This always throws exception

org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Exception in com.test.bundle.Activator.start() of bundle com.test.bundle.
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:734)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:683)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:381)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.resume(AbstractBundle.java:390)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.resumeBundle(Framework.java:1177)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles(StartLevelManager.java:559)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles(StartLevelManager.java:544)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.incFWSL(StartLevelManager.java:457)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.doSetStartLevel(StartLevelManager.java:243)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.dispatchEvent(StartLevelManager.java:438)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.dispatchEvent(StartLevelManager.java:1)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:230)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager$EventThread.run(EventManager.java:340)
 Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBContext
at com.test.bundle.Activator.start(Activator.java:26)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$1.run(BundleContextImpl.java:711)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:702)
... 12 more
 Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:501)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:421)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:412)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:107)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
... 16 more

I am running java version “1.6.0_37”. These are the bundles i am running

id  State       Bundle
0   ACTIVE      org.eclipse.osgi_3.8.0.v20120529-1548
1   ACTIVE      org.eclipse.core.runtime_3.8.0.v20120521-2346
2   ACTIVE      org.ops4j.pax.logging.pax-logging-api_1.7.0
3   RESOLVED    com.test.bundle_1.0.0.201301181429
4   ACTIVE      org.eclipse.equinox.common_3.6.100.v20120522-1841
5   ACTIVE      org.eclipse.equinox.console_1.0.0.v20120522-1841  
6   ACTIVE      org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime_0.8.0.v201108120515
7   ACTIVE      org.apache.felix.gogo.shell_0.8.0.v201110170705
8   ACTIVE      org.apache.felix.gogo.command_0.8.0.v201108120515
9   ACTIVE      org.eclipse.core.jobs_3.5.300.v20120622-204750
10  ACTIVE      org.eclipse.equinox.registry_3.5.200.v20120522-1841
11  ACTIVE      org.eclipse.equinox.preferences_3.5.0.v20120522-1841
12  ACTIVE      org.eclipse.core.contenttype_3.4.200.v20120523-2004
13  ACTIVE      org.eclipse.equinox.app_1.3.100.v20120522-1841

isn’t javax.xml shipped with java 1.6 ? I also tried adding javax.xml bundles but that didn’t solve the issue.

Answer 1

You will need to be sure that you import the javax.xml.bind package or the JAXB public API bundle in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file.

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