Putting a dummy activator in an early library that is required to do the below seems to have worked. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Hope that's acceptable to you. If you really don't want to do this, then
you can actually configure GlassFish to start all lazy bundles eagerly
by setting glassfish.osgi.auto.start.options=0 in
felix/conf/config.properties.