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The OSGi Alliance now provides Apache committers access to its Compliance Tests (CT). This page describes how to use the CT with Felix subprojects.get access to the CTs and how to use them with Felix subprojects.

Gaining Access to OSGi CTs

The general process is to send a request to the jcp-open@apache.org mailing requesting access. Since redistributing the OSGi CTs is not allowed, you will need to submit an NDA to be granted access to the SVN repo containing the binaries.

OSGi CT Overview

The CT is delivered as two JAR files, one for the core CT and one for the compendium CT. Each JAR file is composed of several other JAR files, which are the actual compliance tests. Typically, there is one JAR per specification, except for the OSGi framework. The CT uses BND as its testing harness, which in turn uses the OSGi R4.2 framework launching and embedding API to configure, launch, and install test bundles. Each test JAR file has an associated BND file which supplies the configuration BND needs to run the associated tests.

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Typically, it is not necessary to change anything else in the BND files and it is normal that the -runbundles setting is empty, since there are no additional bundles associated with testing the framework. The exception to this is for the framework test suites for security, for which . To test with security enabled, you will need to add the framework security provider in -runbundles like this:

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