Can an OSGi JAR once running ask its container to load another OSGi JAR from another location?

Question

Lets say I loaded my OSGi JAR into Apache Felix, I wrote the OSGi JAR. Can my OSGi JAR ask Apache Felix to load another OSGi JAR from a HTTP URL?

Answer 1

Yes, you can. See the javadoc of BundleContext.installBundle() function. By calling this function of the bundle context of your own bundle, you can install other bundles from any input stream.