Lazy loading of classes not working

Look at the code below where the main() loads a class whose name is specified by first argument. The second argument tells whether the class should be resolved or not. It also contains 5 test classes: A1, A2 and their dependencies: B, B1, B2. We will try to identify how early Bs are needed if I want to use As.

OSGi/JMS/MDB Example

Here is an example of yet another hybrid (OSGi + Java EE) application. This is a complete JMS consumer/producer example using OSGi and GlassFish. You can download the complete sample from here.

JAX-WS Web Service in an OSGi bundle

Recently a user in GlassFish forum asked about developing JAX-WS web service in an OSGi bundle. Here is a complete sample demonstrating a JAX-WS web service invoking an OSGi service via OSGi service registry. You can download it from here. The diagram below hopefully explains the organisation of the sample:

EJB as OSGi Service demo at eclipsecon

Modularizing Enterprise Java Applications

GlassFish at enterprise OSGi face2face event - Meeting with OSGi Experts

Meeting with OSGi Experts

How to embed GlassFish in an existing OSGi runtime?

Typical users of GlassFish use GlassFish in a separate process and they start GlassFish by using commands like the following:

javap ignores Class-Path manifest entry

Did you know javap ignores Class-Path manifest attribute where as javac honors it? I didn't. Now I know. I have a jar called foo.jar with following manifest entry:

Having trouble creating a Jar with MANIFEST.MF?

When my colleague Marina Vatkina sent me some code earlier today hoping a second pair of eyes would spot the obvious error, knowing how thorough Marina typically is, I knew there was no obvious error there. Simplified version of what was being attempted is shown below:

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.jar.*;

public class CreateJarWithManifest {
    
  
  

Should Class.getAnnotations fail if an annotation type is not available?

While evaluating a GlassFish bug, I discovered a discrepancy in behavior of Class.getAnnotations() between IBM JRE and Sun JRE. the complex GlassFish issue boiled down to a simple test case as discussed below.