The basic issue is that a bundle deployment when put in requiredStage = DeploymentStages.DESCRIBE it will only progress to Bundle.INSTALLED, hence the bundle with not get RESOLVED nor STARTED. When requiredStage = DeploymentStages.CLASSLOADER or above, the bundle can start when all its dependencies are resolved. The bundle deployment will however fail, if it has unresolved dependencies. The desired behaviour is: Bundles with unresolved dependencies get INSTALLED without error. Bundles with resolved dependencies get STARTED without error. A bundle that could only get INSTALLED (but not RESOLVED) gets STARTED when it's dependencies can be RESOLVED. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4253522#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...