How to reuse blueprint bean declarations across OSGi bundles?

[jasonnh]

Hi,

I have a number of bundles all of which have blueprint xml files defining beans and sometimes camel contexts.  Most of them declare activemq beans to define the connection pooling to a fabric discovered broker.

The XML for this is the same for each blueprint XML file and I would like to be able to replace that with a declaration in a single file (presumably in a common bundle).

ActiveMq connection beans are just examples, there are other common beans whose declarations would benefit from being declared just once.

I tried putting the beans in a common bundle under resources/com/mycompany/a/b/c folder, exporting that folder as a package in the common bundle and then importing in the places I need but it did not seem to be picked up.

Does anybody know if it is possible to reuse blueprint xml bean declarations across bundles?

Thanks

Edited by: jasonnh on Jan 23, 2013 9:25 AM

[jasonnh]

Do I have to use OSGi services for these types of beans?

That seems reasonable for things like activemq connection beans but it would be nice to be able to reuse declarations for other types of beans.

[ffang]

Hi,

The "import resource" stuff only works for spring but not for blueprint.

If you wanna share beans across bundles, I suggest you export those beans as OSGi service and refer OSGi service in other bundles.

Freeman