Can I just drop osgi.enterprise.jar in my equinox plugins folder?

I'm interested in the OSGi Enterprise specification. At the moment I'm only interested in the JDBC connectivity, but that may change.

At http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release4V42 I can find the osgi.enterprise.jar (the companion code link). Can I just install it in my equinox container and use it?

I had the impression that some of the classes are overlapping (for instance org.osgi.service.component), doesn't this lead to problems? Or should I then just uninstall the org.eclips开发者_StackOverflow中文版e.osgi.services bundle and use the osgi.enterprise instead?

No. You can't do that. The file from OSGI.org is mostly interfaces, it is not complete implementation.

The answer by "J-16 SDiZ" is correct, in that the osgi.enterprise.jar is pure interfaces rather than implementations.

You also asked about the overlap with the org.eclipse.osgi.services bundle… in fact the OSGi enterprise JAR should be a strict superset of it. There is not much problem with having both these bundles installed but it is also not really necessary, so to minimise confusion I would probably remove org.eclipse.osgi.services.