Posted by Wade Walker on Mar 27, 2013; 1:47am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/OSGi-with-Bndtools-and-Apache-Felix-throws-exception-tp4028765p4028842.html

I think the Class.forName() is used because OGLUtilities is a private package that you're not normally allowed to import :) These problems do sound like the classloader inside your app is somehow set up strangely (for JOGL, at least).

Do you have any third-party example of a Felix program that uses an external JAR like this? There could be something about your app lifecycle or setup that I'm just unaware of, and it would be nice to know if there's some little Felix-specific trick we're missing.