I believe you have two options here. If you have Import-Package: com.google.gson;version=”[2.3,3)” in your MANIFEST.MF, this means that you want some package to be imported from a deployed bundle, not from an embedded jar. In this case, you should first deploy gson-2.3.1.jar bundle (copy this file to the deploy folder), and then deploy your bundle. … Read more
TLDR: Apache Karaf is much more ‘batteries-included’. It can also run on any OSGI runtime. Apache Felix (which is an implementation of the OSGi 4.2 framework) Sort of. Apache Karaf can use Apache Felix. Apache Karaf can also use Equinox or another OSGi runtime. By default, the Apache Karaf standard download does come with Apache … Read more
The ‘lightweight OSGi container’ label is contrasting Karaf with more feature rich OSGi containers, not with Felix. To quote Guillaume Nodet (Karaf’s author) from here: Felix is just the OSGi core runtime. Karaf provides a “distribution” based on Felix by adding other features such as a console, an SSH remoting mechanism, a file deployer and … Read more