Cloning Spring Application Context in OSGi bundle

I have a Spring-enabled OSGi bundle. I'd like this bundle to export a factory-type OSGi service which client software can use to create multiple instances of the application context defined in this bundle.

By default the Spring DM library bundles will automatically scan and create an instance of an application context from any Spring XML config开发者_如何学Gouration found under "META_INF/spring". To avoid this I moved the Spring XML configuration files under a different folder and then tried creating the application context programmatically on demand from the factory class. Unfortunately I ran into issues with Spring schema files not being available on the bundle classpath. I really don't want to embed the required Spring jars within my bundle just to get access to those schemas.

Is there a simpler way to clone Spring application contexts under an OSGi environment?

I do not understand your problem in detail but if you just want to load the application-context from a different location than META-INF/spring you can define this in the MANIFEST.MF file using 'Spring-Context', e.g. for files in the root folder

Spring-Context: /application-context-core.xml,/application-context-osgi.xml

See the documentation for further information.