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

Enabling this feature

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

<feature>blueprint-1.0</feature>

Feature configuration elements

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-22.0

Features that enable this feature

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you 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