Hi Justin At first I was confused as I included the Bundle-Activator in the MANIFEST.MF file included
*Bundle-Activator: com.me.helloservice.Activator* but also realized in the pom.xml the reference to the maven bundling plugin org.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin .. my bad :-( this plugin auto-generates the metadata from bundle, so got rid of my static MANIFEST.MF configuration. Now I can see the great Hello World message ... Thanks for your help
