在构建Maven之后，OSGi软件包始终处于“开始”状态

Question

So I have tried adding a new bundle to my project. Everything works perfectly in Eclipse Equinox but there is a problem with the Maven (Tycho) build. My bundle is visible in OSGi console and its status is STARTING but it would't start when its service is needed. I can start the bundle manually from the OSGi console and then it works. I can even restart my app after that and it still works.

When I go into bundles.info I can see this line:

org.eclipse.orion.server.authentication.github,1.0.0.v20151013-0508,plugins/org.eclipse.orion.server.authentication.github_1.0.0.v20151013-0508.jar,4,false

If I change 'false' to 'true' at the end then it also works. How to configure my bundle to make it 'true' by default?

The larger story behind my bundle (let's call it A) is: It implements an interface defined in bundle B (so A requires B) and registers a service under this interface. This service is used inside B (B does not know about A before runtime). I heard removing this kind of cyclic dependency could help but I don't want to modify B to avoid merge conflicts.

Answer 1

Maybe this is not a real problem. It is a typical behaviour of Equinox. It shows bundles as starting until another bundle actually needs the service the bundle is offering. So typically you can just ignore the status starting in equinox.

Alternatively you can run your bundles on felix where they should be reported as Active.