Sharing common OSGi bundles for the Liberty profile

You can share common OSGi bundles by placing them in a directory and configuring the server.xml file for your server, so that those common OSGi bundles are available to your OSGi applications.

• Create a directory in your file system and place all the common OSGi bundles into the directory.
• Add the following lines into the server.xml file.

    <bundleRepository> 
     <fileset dir="directory_path" include="*.jar"/> 
    </bundleRepository> 

  Where directory_path is the path to the directory that contains the common OSGi bundles.
• Define a dependency on the common bundle using import phrase in the manifest.mf file of your OSGi application.