How to read OSGi configurations which are not bound to the executing component.
The recommended approach to reading various OSGi configurations is to use the ConfigurationAdmin [1], not to search for the config files in your application. See the sample code here [2].
[1] https://osgi.org/javadoc/r4v42/org/osgi/service/cm/ConfigurationAdmin.html
[2] http://felix.apache.org/documentation/subprojects/apache-felix-config-admin.html
The ConfigurationAdmin is an OSGi service so it can be obtained via SCR annotation in your own OSGi component code. Example below (org.sample.PrettyPrinterConfigurator is the PID of the configuration):
@Reference ConfigurationAdmin configAdmin; @Activate public void activate(ComponentContext componentContext) { Configuration config = configurationAdmin.getConfiguration( "org.sample.PrettyPrinterConfigurator"); Dictionary props = config.getProperties(); }