OSGI JAX-WS Client On WebSphere Application Server - osgi

I am trying to implement an OSGI based JAX-WS WebService client on WebSphere Application Server(8.5.5). I created a web project in my RAD (Rational Application Developer) workbench and added the programming model as osgi.
After that I tried to create the webservice client from the available wsdl.
But I am getting the following error " The IBM WebSphere JAX-WS Web service runtime does not support Client projects with the OSGi Bundle facet."

Are you using JAX-WS on WebSphere Application Server traditional (i.e. not the Liberty Profile)? If so, then traditional does not support JAX-WS in OSGi Applications. The Liberty profile does support JAX-WS.
If not, then this could be a tools check that's no longer valid. I know the tools used to prevent you doing this when JAX-WS was not supported on traditional or Liberty. You could try using the latest WebSphere Developer tools from the Ecilpse Marketplace or https://wasdev.net/repo to create a simple test project to see if you hit the same problem.
I hope this helps.
Regards, Graham.

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I checked the IBM knowledge center, the websphere support a EJB application inside a OSGI bundle, I am not sure if Liberty also support it so far?
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IBM doc: Enterprise OSGi programming model support

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Will Java apps developed on WLP run on a 'real' WAS server? Without changes??
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https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/downloads/migtoolkit/config.html

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