How to Represent an OSGi Runtime Configuration in Ivy?

In contrast to the POJO 开发者_开发知识库world where the runtime classpath is just an ordered list of containers, in OSGi, the containers from the runtime classpath itself can be ordered lists of container paths.

How can/should such a structured runtime configuration be represented in an ivy.xml file?

For terminology please see section 3.8 from OSGi Service Platform Core Specification release 4.

Ivy is a generic dependency manager. I don't work on OSGi bundles but the attached link might give you some pointers how how bundles can be structured and managed using ivy:

http://code.google.com/p/bushel/wiki/HowToUseIvyWithYourOsgiProject