diff --git a/avro/pom.xml b/avro/pom.xml
index 857e7ae80..96ad08536 100644
--- a/avro/pom.xml
+++ b/avro/pom.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ abstractions.
     <!-- Generate PackageVersion.java into this directory. -->
     <packageVersion.dir>com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro</packageVersion.dir>
     <packageVersion.package>${project.groupId}.avro</packageVersion.package>
+    <old.jackson.version>1.9.13</old.jackson.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
@@ -25,16 +26,28 @@ abstractions.
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!--  and databind for Avro Schema generation... -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
       <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
       <version>1.8.2</version>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+          <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+          <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 
     <!-- and for testing we need logback -->
@@ -74,6 +87,13 @@ abstractions.
         <groupId>org.moditect</groupId>
         <artifactId>moditect-maven-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId>
+        <artifactId>karaf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+            <includeTransitiveDependency>true</includeTransitiveDependency>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/avro/src/main/feature/feature.xml b/avro/src/main/feature/feature.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e32c52c61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/avro/src/main/feature/feature.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<features xmlns="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/features/v1.6.0" name="${project.artifactId}">
+    <repository>mvn:com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype/jackson-datatype-guava/${jackson.version.datatype}/xml/features</repository>
+    <feature name="${project.artifactId}">
+        <feature>jackson-datatype-guava</feature>
+    </feature>
+</features>