Hey Benson Margulies, thanks for offering your help, that's much appreciated! I'll get back to your comments in more detail later, just a quick reply regarding

It's not needed; see https://github.com/apache/cxf/blob/3.1.x-fixes/osgi/karaf/features/src/main/resources/features.xml#L443 for a working feature that does not use wrap.

Indeed the wrap for JBoss logging is not needed anymore. I've sent a patch upstream a while ago which is part of the 3.3.0 release. The ParaNamer issue remains though, the CXF feature you linked to doesn't contain it, and I don't know whether there is another one. We may try and have it fixed upstream if they'd be willing to accept it. Note that ParaNamer is an optional dependency for a rather tiny feature, so we may omit that from the features file in case this causes more harm than good.