Bundles having same package structure for export :Require bundle Split packages

I was stuck in cases where i had two bundle having the same package structure and they wanted to share these classes.
Osgi just looks into only one of this package and then for any further requests it will look into this folder, if not found gives a class not found exception even though its present in the other bundle.
This case can be solved by using the concept of split packages.
The bundle which needs classes from multiple bundles having the same package structure should define those two bundles as Require-Bundle in its manifest headers in the order in which it should look for.
By doing so the environment ensures that both the bundles will be scanned one after the other to look for the requested classes.
Still i would prefer to refactor the jars than use this feature of require bundle.