This is what I mentioned last week about split packages need more work. There's a JIRA issue it for it in the classloading. AFAIK, the issue in the validation (consistency checking) rather than the runtime? An OSGi implementation doesn't have to support split packages so its not a priorty for me. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4251490#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...