OSGi Blueprint 1.0

This feature enables support for deploying OSGi applications that use the OSGi blueprint container specification. With the OSGi Applications support in WebSphere Application Server, we can develop and deploy modular applications that use Java EE and OSGi technologies.

Enable this feature

To enable the OSGi Blueprint 1.0 feature, add the following element declaration into server.xml, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>blueprint-1.0</feature>

Feature configuration elements

• application
• applicationManager
• applicationMonitor
• authData
• bundleRepository
• classloader
• classloading
• javaPermission
• library
• osgiApplication
• osgiApplications
• osgiLibrary
• transaction

Third-party API packages provided by this feature

• org.apache.aries.transaction.exception

Supported Java versions

• JavaSE-1.8
• JavaSE-11.0
• JavaSE-17.0
• JavaSE-21.0
• JavaSE-24.0

Features that enable this feature

• osgi.jpa-1.0
• osgiAppIntegration-1.0
• wab-1.0

Develop a feature that depends on this feature

If we are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.blueprint-1.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"

SPI packages provided by this feature

• org.apache.aries.blueprint
• org.apache.aries.blueprint.ext
• org.apache.aries.blueprint.ext.evaluator
• org.apache.aries.blueprint.mutable
• org.apache.aries.blueprint.services
• org.apache.aries.util
• org.osgi.service.cm
• org.osgi.service.subsystem