Question

I have several OSGI bundles and WAR packages which use external libraries:

       <dependencies>       
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax</groupId>
            <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
            <version>6.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.8.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>        
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
            <artifactId>org.osgi.core</artifactId>
            <version>4.2.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
            <artifactId>org.osgi.compendium</artifactId>
            <version>4.2.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
            <artifactId>osgi-cdi-api</artifactId>
            <version>3.1-b41</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

Instead of building the libraries into every OSGI bundle and WAR package is it possible to copy these libraries into /modules directory of the Glassfish server. I suppose that it’s possible to use only one copy without any problem?

EDIT

I found that these libraries can be deployed as modules in Glassfish with the command:

[root@Testserver bin]# sh asadmin add-library /opt/primefaces.jar
But then for example in a simple WAR package what I need to modify in order to use Glassfish modules? The WAR package must be configured to use external libraries I suppose?

Answer 1

I don’t think the problem is in your war file, but to be sure you can check the MANIFEST file. If the Import-Package headers are correct, there isn’t anything you can do from the war file. If that’s the case, there must be a way to convince Glassfish to make a module visible to a webapp (I’m no Glassfish expert, sorry).

Otherwise, fix the Import-Package headers (you can do that manually for now).