I'm afraid that I'm a little short on time for debugging this, but it seems to help if you tell the Java 7 compiler to ignore the missing bootstrap class path jars (Animal Sniffer should save us from anything nasty anyway). The following in the default-parent compiler plugin configuration makes some progress: <configuration> <optimize>true</optimize> <debug>true</debug> <showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation> <showWarnings>true</showWarnings> <fork>true</fork> <compilerArgument>-Xlint:-options</compilerArgument> </configuration> I've included this as a patch too if that's helpful to someone.
Tim Ward ------------------- Apache Aries PMC member & Enterprise OSGi advocate Enterprise OSGi in Action (http://www.manning.com/cummins) -------------------