Spring-OSGi : How to get a bean factory

[vk_phoenixfr]

Hi every one !

I'm testing OSGi currently with Equinox and hopefully Spring-OSGi.

I'm trying to put a database accessor into my main bundle class, and for this, i want to use Spring-OSGi.

What I'm trying to achieve is to get the Spring BeanFactory and use it to load my database access bean, configured in the bundle-context.xml file, under the spring folder of the META-INF folder.

I figured out by myself that I was supposed to use an OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext object to get my factory and here is how i do it :

String[] configLocations = new ApplicationContextConfiguration(context.getBundle()).getConfigurationLocations();
bundleApplicationContext = new OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext(context,configLocations);
factory = bundleApplicationContext.getBeanFactory();

But this always give me an exception when i call the getBeanFactory() method:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: BeanFactory not initialized or already closed - call 'refresh' before accessing beans via the ApplicationContext

Any idea someone?

Thank you !

[vk_phoenixfr]

No one?
I was expecting Spring community to be more helpful...
I'm a little bit surprized.

[karldmoore]

I don't know if it will help, but there is a SpringOSGI google group, that seems to be pretty active (at last glance).

[karldmoore]

Also noticed this thread.
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=30982

[Costin Leau]

See the newly created Spring-DM forum:http://forum.springframework.org/forumdisplay.php?f=43.
I recommend you read the Spring-DM documentation - http://static.springframework.org/os...eference/html/.
In OSGi, there is no need to create the application context yourself - rather you rely on Spring-DM to create it for you.
The problem in your case is that you haven't set up everything that the context needs.

Hope this helps,