Hi Felix Forum,
I have created a OSGI bundle from a custom API jar,the jar depends on around 60 jars.

In the bundle I have created I have packaged the jars in a lib directory and then included the jars in the classpath in the `maven pom.xml`. When I deploy the bundle in Karaf the bundle starts and shows its active ,but when I try to access the API bundle from another bundle say test I get `NoClassDefFoundError`

On investigation I found that there is a static initializer in the `org.apache.axis2.util.XMLUtils` class which might be causing the error.

The Full error message is: 

 

    org.apache.karaf.shell.support.MultiException: Error executing command on bundles:
        Error starting bundle66: Activator start error in bundle com.rna.app [66].
        at org.apache.karaf.shell.support.MultiException.throwIf(MultiException.java:61)
        at org.apache.karaf.bundle.command.BundlesCommand.doExecute(BundlesCommand.java:69)[23:org.apache.karaf.bundle.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.karaf.bundle.command.BundlesCommand.execute(BundlesCommand.java:54)[23:org.apache.karaf.bundle.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.karaf.shell.impl.action.command.ActionCommand.execute(ActionCommand.java:83)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.karaf.shell.impl.console.osgi.secured.SecuredCommand.execute(SecuredCommand.java:67)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.karaf.shell.impl.console.osgi.secured.SecuredCommand.execute(SecuredCommand.java:87)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Closure.executeCmd(Closure.java:480)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Closure.executeStatement(Closure.java:406)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Pipe.run(Pipe.java:108)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Closure.execute(Closure.java:182)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Closure.execute(Closure.java:119)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.CommandSessionImpl.execute(CommandSessionImpl.java:94)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.karaf.shell.impl.console.ConsoleSessionImpl.run(ConsoleSessionImpl.java:267)[43:org.apache.karaf.shell.core:4.0.1]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)[:1.8.0_66]
    Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Error starting bundle66: Activator start error in bundle com.rna.app [66].
        at org.apache.karaf.bundle.command.BundlesCommand.doExecute(BundlesCommand.java:66)[23:org.apache.karaf.bundle.core:4.0.1]
        ... 12 more
    Caused by: org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Activator start error in bundle com.rna.app [66].
        at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.activateBundle(Felix.java:2270)[org.apache.felix.framework-5.0.1.jar:]
        at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.startBundle(Felix.java:2138)[org.apache.felix.framework-5.0.1.jar:]
        at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleImpl.start(BundleImpl.java:977)[org.apache.felix.framework-5.0.1.jar:]
        at org.apache.karaf.bundle.command.Start.executeOnBundle(Start.java:38)[23:org.apache.karaf.bundle.core:4.0.1]
        at org.apache.karaf.bundle.command.BundlesCommand.doExecute(BundlesCommand.java:64)[23:org.apache.karaf.bundle.core:4.0.1]
        ... 12 more
    Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.axis2.util.XMLUtils
        at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DescriptionBuilder.buildOM(DescriptionBuilder.java:97)
        at org.apache.axis2.deployment.AxisConfigBuilder.populateConfig(AxisConfigBuilder.java:88)
        at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DeploymentEngine.populateAxisConfiguration(DeploymentEngine.java:705)
        at org.apache.axis2.deployment.FileSystemConfigurator.getAxisConfiguration(FileSystemConfigurator.java:116)
        at org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContextFactory.createConfigurationContext(ConfigurationContextFactory.java:64)
        at org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContextFactory.createConfigurationContextFromFileSystem(ConfigurationContextFactory.java:206)
        at com.rna.App.start(App.java:71)
        at org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.startActivator(SecureAction.java:697)
        at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.activateBundle(Felix.java:2220)
        ... 16 more



Any ideas on how to investigate further would be really helpful.

Thanks and RegardsShridhar