It doesn't look like we could solve the entire problem. With the actual version on trunk (revision 1224915) I cannot install camel-cxf in Karaf 2.2.5. I opened a new JIRA [1]. May be one of the OSGI experts could have a look on it:
Christian-Muellers-MacBook-Pro:bin cmueller$ /Applications/apache-karaf-2.2.5/bin/karaf clean __ __ ____ / //_/____ __________ _/ __/ / ,< / __ `/ ___/ __ `/ /_ / /| |/ /_/ / / / /_/ / __/ /_/ |_|\__,_/_/ \__,_/_/ Apache Karaf (2.2.5) Hit '<tab>' for a list of available commands and '[cmd] --help' for help on a specific command. Hit '<ctrl-d>' or 'osgi:shutdown' to shutdown Karaf. karaf@root> features:addurl mvn:org.apache.camel.karaf/apache-camel/2.9-SNAPSHOT/xml/features karaf@root> features:install camel-cxf 2011-12-27 21:39:05.855:INFO:oejs.Server:jetty-7.5.4.v20111024 2011-12-27 21:39:05.877:INFO:oejs.AbstractConnector:Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:8181 STARTING 2011-12-27 21:39:06.061:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started HttpServiceContext{httpContext=DefaultHttpContext{bundle=org.apache.karaf.deployer.features [34]}} 2011-12-27 21:39:07.441:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:stopped HttpServiceContext{httpContext=DefaultHttpContext{bundle=org.apache.karaf.deployer.features [34]}} Error executing command: Could not start bundle mvn:org.apache.cxf/cxf-bundle/2.5.1 in feature(s) cxf-2.5.1: Unable to resolve module org.apache.cxf.bundle [136.0] because it is exposed to package 'javax.xml.bind.attachment' from org.apache.felix.framework [0] and org.apache.servicemix.specs.jaxb-api-2.2 [65.0] via two dependency chains. Chain 1: org.apache.cxf.bundle [136.0] import: (&(package=javax.xml.bind.attachment)(version>=0.0.0)(!(version>=3.0.0))) | export: package=javax.xml.bind.attachment org.apache.felix.framework [0] Chain 2: org.apache.cxf.bundle [136.0] import: (package=com.sun.tools.xjc.reader.xmlschema.parser) | export: package=com.sun.tools.xjc.reader.xmlschema.parser; uses:=javax.xml.bind org.apache.servicemix.bundles.jaxb-xjc [95.0] import: (&(package=javax.xml.bind)(version>=2.2.0)(!(version>=3.0.0))) | export: package=javax.xml.bind; uses:=javax.xml.bind.attachment export: package=javax.xml.bind.attachment org.apache.servicemix.specs.jaxb-api-2.2 [65.0] [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-4831 Best, Christian