How to configure user bundles so that they can be autostarted with higher priority - hence earlier than others?

Question

I need to run certain plugins before others. First thought was to add names of bundles, priorities in '\configuration\bundles.info' but on start of OSGI it was throwing error java.lang.Exception: Could not find plugin com.example.myplugin. The added line was similar to this: com.example.myplugin,1.1.1,dropins/MY-ARTIFACT-1.2.3-SNAPSHOT/eclipse/plugins/com.example.myplugin-1.1.0.SNAPSHOT.jar,2,true

Then I added to \configuration\config.ini the parameter:

osgi.bundles=reference\:file\com.example.myplugin-1.1.0.SNAPSHOT.jar@2\:start

Same error persisted. How to solve it?

Answer 1

You were right. Start level in OSGi is defined by the @2 you put in your config.ini file. The default (by default) is a start level of 4. It seems that your problem is more related to a directory path problem to access the bundle rather than the load order of your bundles themselves.