title: How do I start a specific bundle in my own OSGi application deployed in WAS 8.0?
body: <p>I have quite a sophisticated OSGi application which uses Declarative Services and was designed to be deployed in Equinox. Now the task is to make this application be deployable in WAS 8.</p>
  
  <p>The first try was quite pragmatic: I have deployed an EAR which has started basically the same Equinox and after some WAS class loading policy tweaks it has worked.</p>
  
  <p>Now I want to go further: get rid of the Equinox runtime and deploy my bundles "natively" in WAS 8. So I have composed an EBA, consisting out of my business bundles, their dependencies and Equinox DS runtime. The EBA is deployed as an asset and integrated into a BLA. The application has even started and runs but the components are not initialized. </p>
  
  <p>The point is that one has to start equinox.ds <em>in front of the own business bundles (UPDATE: not a must, s. discussion below)</em> in order to make DS do its job. But how do I tell the bundles which is to be started first within the deployed EBA? I need some analog of Equinox' config.ini file.</p>
  
  <p>I know I can rewire my components with natively supported Blueprint, but frankly this is the last thing I'd like to do. It should be possible to make Equinox DS work, shouldn't it?</p>
  
  <p>Another question is: how to get the OSGi console for one's own application deployed under WAS 8? I want to control my bundles but seems that there is no way to do it from the Management Console.</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p>
  
  <p>Thanks to BJ and Neil (s. discussion below), the question takes down to "How do I start a specific bundle in my own OSGi application deployed in WAS 8.0?"</p>