The Subsystems subproject uses RFC 138(Framework hooks). You need to download the implementation jar at: http://download.eclipse.org/equinox/ You need to copy it in your local m2 repository: ~/.m2/repository/org/eclipse/osgi/3.7.0.v20100910/osgi-3.7.0.v20100910.jar I tested using the 3.7M2 stable builds. Also, you need to run the following command to index your local m2 repo to ~/.m2/repository/repository.xml file. mvn org.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin:2.1.0:index -DurlTemplate=maven