Posted by Justin on May 30, 2011; 9:20am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Problem-with-OSGi-Bundle-sun-nio-ch-DirectBuffer-tp3001199p3001300.html

Surprisingly, I managed to figure this out soon after. In case anyone has a similar issue in the future, I found a nice post here:
http://blog.springsource.com/2009/01/19/exposing-the-boot-classpath-in-osgi/

For me, setting

proprety org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation=sun.*,com.sun.*

worked and was the most simple.