OSGi had to introduce an additional API to cover this use case, because of the same issues you are identifying. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4189008#4189008 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4189008