Bridge between Dispatcher servlet and OSGi registry

[sdcoder]

Hello,
We are using Equinox Servlet Bridge over a web container to enable OSGi. We register a DispatcherServlet to handle HTTP requests coming from consumers. Here is the issue -
I would like to use Spring both inside the bundle ( to configure Dispatcher servlet ) and outside the bundle ( to let spring manage the OSGi aspects), however I can't find a way to bridge the gap between the application contexts inside the and outside the bundles. To be specific, I would like to setup a DispatcherServlet's application context that can get services injected from the OSGi registry (outside the bundle).
If you have come across such a problem, please help.

[Costin Leau]

This isn't easy to achieve since you're literally bridging two different world which leads to two different instances for the same configuration. One thing you could do is try to use statics along with bootpath delegation so that the classes inside OSGi are loaded by the container classloader which, along with some usage of static classes, could allow for referring to a single instance (cached inside a static field/method).