diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 359de6cb5..761dd6400 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,19 +38,23 @@ Some data-binding types overridden as well (ObjectMapper sub-classed as XmlMappe
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!--  JAXB annotation introspector is needed too? -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- 20-Mar-2019, tatu: Stax-api been part of JDK since Java 6, so let's drop
         dependency as it causes issues with JDK9+ module info
@@ -147,6 +151,10 @@ Some data-binding types overridden as well (ObjectMapper sub-classed as XmlMappe
 	<groupId>org.moditect</groupId>
 	<artifactId>moditect-maven-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId>
+        <artifactId>karaf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
diff --git a/src/main/feature/feature.xml b/src/main/feature/feature.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7afd0ca6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/feature/feature.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<features xmlns="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/features/v1.6.0" name="${project.artifactId}">
+    <repository>mvn:com.fasterxml.jackson.module/jackson-module-jaxb-annotations/${jackson.version.core}/xml/features</repository>
+    <feature name="${project.artifactId}">
+        <!-- The jackson-module-jaxb-annotations feature depends on the jackson-databind, jackson-core and jackson-annotations features and will pull them all in -->
+        <feature>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</feature>
+        <bundle start-level="80">wrap:mvn:com.github.relaxng/relaxngDatatype/2011.1</bundle>
+    </feature>
+</features>