Is it possible to run OSGi components within Weblogic 10.3?

Question

Is it possible to run OSGi components within Weblogic 10.3? From what i have read it is not possible but im asking just to be 100% sure. There is no option to swap out WL 10.3 so there is no need to list any other application servers or OSGi containers.

Thanx

Answer 1

You can embed an osgi container inside of WLS 10.3, then deploy your bundles inside it.

Equinox in a Servlet Container

It's pretty rough, but might be worth a look.

WLS 10.3 supports j2ee deployable libraries which can be used to modularize a large application.

Answer 2

What do you mean by OSGi components ? If you mean a bundle, then you can certainly load it, since a bundle is just a .jar file with additional metadata. However you're not going to get the lifecycle events, and if the bundle depends on these to bind to additional services then you will have a problem.