[equinox-dev] mysterious problem with classloader

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Equinoxers,

ECF has a discovery provider that is based upon SLP (Service Locator 
Protocol...RFC 2608).  The provider plugin depends upon/uses the java 
implementation of SLP called jSLP [1], originally developed by Jan 
Rellermeyer, who is now an ECF committer and has contributed jSLP to Orbit.

Short summary:
   ECF SLP Provider (org.eclipse.ecf.provider.jslp)
      depends upon: jSLP Bundle from Orbit (ch.ethz.iks.slp)
      depends upon ECF Core/ECF Discovery API 
(org.eclipse.ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.discovery)

We seem to be having some troubles with the lazy activation of SLP 
provider/jSLP bundle and classload failures.  The details are described 
in this bug and the attached M7 log:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=229922

Any thoughts about what's going on here...or thoughts about how to 
further diagnose?  It doesn't seem to be completely deterministic.

Thanksinadvance,

Scott