The PackageAdmin seems to be one of the core services provided by felix | [tdiesler@tddell default]$ find . -name *.jar | xargs grep PackageAdmin | Binary file ./deployers/osgi.deployer/org.apache.felix.framework.jar matches | Binary file ./deployers/osgi.deployer/org.osgi.core.jar matches | I'd suggest the BundleStartStopDeployer maintains a list of unresolved bundles and tries to resolve them before bundle.start() is attempted. We could make PackageAdmin a required service without which BundleStartStopDeployer cannot start bundles automatically. Only if this approach fails I'd investigate (2) or (3) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4214185#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...