Share common OSGi bundles for the Liberty profile

We can share common OSGi bundles by placing them in a directory and configuring server.xml for the server, so that those common OSGi bundles are available to your OSGi applications.

• Create a directory in the file system and place all the common OSGi bundles into the directory.

• Add the following lines into server.xml.

    <bundleRepository> 
     <fileset dir="directory_path" include="*.jar"/> 
    </bundleRepository> 

  Where directory_path is the path to the directory containing the common OSGi bundles.

• Define a dependency on the common bundle using import phrase in the manifest.mf file of the OSGi application.

Parent topic: Deploy OSGi applications to the Liberty profile