diff --git a/activemq-karaf/src/main/resources/org/apache/activemq/karaf/commands/spring.xml b/activemq-karaf/src/main/resources/org/apache/activemq/karaf/commands/spring.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b65ce87ab..0000000000
--- a/activemq-karaf/src/main/resources/org/apache/activemq/karaf/commands/spring.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,144 +0,0 @@
-<!--
-    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-   
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-   
-    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-    limitations under the License.
--->
-<beans
-  xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-  xmlns:amq="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core"
-  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-  http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd   
-  http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd
-  http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd">
-
-    <!-- Allows us to use system properties as variables in this configuration file -->
-    <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/>
-
-    <broker xmlns="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core" brokerName="${name}" dataDirectory="${karaf.data}/activemq/${name}" useShutdownHook="false" startAsync="true">
-
-        <!--
-            For better performances use VM cursor and small memory limit.
-            For more information, see:
-            
-            http://activemq.apache.org/message-cursors.html
-            
-            Also, if your producer is "hanging", it's probably due to producer flow control.
-            For more information, see:
-            http://activemq.apache.org/producer-flow-control.html
-        -->
-              
-        <destinationPolicy>
-            <policyMap>
-              <policyEntries>
-                <policyEntry topic=">" producerFlowControl="true" memoryLimit="1mb">
-                  <pendingSubscriberPolicy>
-                    <vmCursor />
-                  </pendingSubscriberPolicy>
-                </policyEntry>
-                <policyEntry queue=">" producerFlowControl="true" memoryLimit="1mb">
-                  <!-- Use VM cursor for better latency
-                       For more information, see:
-                       
-                       http://activemq.apache.org/message-cursors.html
-                       
-                  <pendingQueuePolicy>
-                    <vmQueueCursor/>
-                  </pendingQueuePolicy>
-                  -->
-                </policyEntry>
-              </policyEntries>
-            </policyMap>
-        </destinationPolicy> 
-
-        <!-- Use the following to configure how ActiveMQ is exposed in JMX -->
-        <managementContext>
-            <managementContext createConnector="false"/>
-        </managementContext>
-
-        <!-- 
-            Configure message persistence for the broker. The default persistence
-            mechanism is the KahaDB store (identified by the kahaDB tag). 
-            For more information, see: 
-            
-            http://activemq.apache.org/persistence.html 
-        -->
-        <persistenceAdapter>
-            <kahaDB directory="${karaf.data}/activemq/${name}/kahadb"/>
-        </persistenceAdapter>
-
-       <!--
-            The systemUsage controls the maximum amount of space the broker will 
-            use before slowing down producers. For more information, see:
-            
-            http://activemq.apache.org/producer-flow-control.html
-             
-        <systemUsage>
-            <systemUsage>
-                <memoryUsage>
-                    <memoryUsage limit="20 mb"/>
-                </memoryUsage>
-                <storeUsage>
-                    <storeUsage limit="1 gb" name="foo"/>
-                </storeUsage>
-                <tempUsage>
-                    <tempUsage limit="100 mb"/>
-                </tempUsage>
-            </systemUsage>
-        </systemUsage>
-        -->
-
-        <shutdownHooks>
-           <bean xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" id="hook" class="org.apache.activemq.hooks.osgi.SpringOsgiContextHook" />
-        </shutdownHooks>
-
-        <!-- The transport connectors ActiveMQ will listen to -->
-        <transportConnectors>
-            <transportConnector name="openwire" uri="tcp://0.0.0.0:61616"/>
-            <transportConnector name="stomp" uri="stomp://0.0.0.0:61613"/>
-        </transportConnectors>
-
-    </broker>
-
-    <bean id="activemqConnectionFactory" class="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory">
-        <property name="brokerURL" value="tcp://0.0.0.0:61616" />
-    </bean>
-
-    <bean id="pooledConnectionFactory" class="org.apache.activemq.pool.PooledConnectionFactory">
-        <property name="maxConnections" value="8" />
-        <property name="connectionFactory" ref="activemqConnectionFactory" />
-    </bean>
-
-    <bean id="resourceManager" class="org.apache.activemq.jms.pool.GenericResourceManager" init-method="recoverResource">
-          <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
-          <property name="connectionFactory" ref="activemqConnectionFactory" />
-          <property name="resourceName" value="activemq.${name}" />
-    </bean>
-
-    <osgi:reference id="transactionManager" interface="javax.transaction.TransactionManager" />
-
-    <osgi:service ref="pooledConnectionFactory">
-
-        <osgi:interfaces>
-            <value>javax.jms.ConnectionFactory</value>
-        </osgi:interfaces>
-        <osgi:service-properties>
-            <entry key="name" value="${name}"/>
-        </osgi:service-properties>
-    </osgi:service>
-
-</beans>
-
-
diff --git a/activemq-osgi/pom.xml b/activemq-osgi/pom.xml
index 80eecf45a6..5190cc57e0 100644
--- a/activemq-osgi/pom.xml
+++ b/activemq-osgi/pom.xml
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@
     </activemq.osgi.export>
     <activemq.osgi.private.pkg>
          org.apache.xbean*,
-         org.springframework.osgi*,
          org.fusesource.hawtdispatch*,
          org.fusesource.mqtt*,
          org.fusesource.hawtbuf*,
@@ -180,29 +179,6 @@
       <artifactId>camel-blueprint</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.springframework.osgi</groupId>
-      <artifactId>spring-osgi-core</artifactId>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>org.springframework.aop</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>org.springframework.beans</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>org.springframework.context</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>org.springframework.core</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-
     <dependency>
       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
       <artifactId>activemq-runtime-config</artifactId>
@@ -303,7 +279,6 @@
             <Embed-Dependency>
               *;groupId=org.apache.activemq;inline=META-INF/services/*,
               *;groupId=org.apache.qpid;inline=META-INF/services/*,
-              *;groupId=org.springframework.osgi;inline=true
               *;groupId=org.apache.xbean;inline=true
               <!--
               groupId=org.fusesource.leveldbjni;inline=META-INF/native/*,
diff --git a/activemq-spring/pom.xml b/activemq-spring/pom.xml
index 447a969b04..2a39e6d934 100644
--- a/activemq-spring/pom.xml
+++ b/activemq-spring/pom.xml
@@ -204,30 +204,6 @@
       <artifactId>activemq-ra</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.springframework.osgi</groupId>
-      <artifactId>spring-osgi-core</artifactId>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-      <optional>true</optional>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>org.springframework.context</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>org.springframework.beans</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>org.springframework.aop</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-          <artifactId>org.springframework.core</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/activemq-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/hooks/osgi/SpringOsgiContextHook.java b/activemq-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/hooks/osgi/SpringOsgiContextHook.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 45c7bec52f..0000000000
--- a/activemq-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/hooks/osgi/SpringOsgiContextHook.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.activemq.hooks.osgi;
-
-import org.osgi.framework.BundleException;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
-import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
-import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;
-import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
-import org.springframework.osgi.context.support.OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext;
-
-public class SpringOsgiContextHook implements Runnable, ApplicationContextAware {
-
-    private static final transient Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SpringOsgiContextHook.class);
-    ApplicationContext applicationContext;
-    
-    public void run() {
-        if (applicationContext instanceof ConfigurableApplicationContext) {
-            ((ConfigurableApplicationContext) applicationContext).close();
-        }
-        if (applicationContext instanceof OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext){
-            try {
-                ((OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext)applicationContext).getBundle().stop();
-            } catch (BundleException e) {
-                LOG.info("Error stopping OSGi bundle " + e, e);
-            }
-        }
-
-    }
-
-    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException {
-        this.applicationContext = applicationContext;
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/activemq-web-console/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/activemq.xml b/activemq-web-console/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/activemq.xml
index c7ed77f79a..279f993d5b 100644
--- a/activemq-web-console/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/activemq.xml
+++ b/activemq-web-console/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/activemq.xml
@@ -18,12 +18,10 @@
 <beans
   xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:amq="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core"
-  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance""
   xsi:schemaLocation="
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
-    http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd
-    http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd">
+    http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd">
 
   <bean id="placeholderConfig" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer" />
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b4dde08088..de95259bea 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@
     <slf4j-version>1.7.13</slf4j-version>
     <snappy-version>1.1.2</snappy-version>
     <spring-version>4.3.9.RELEASE</spring-version>
-    <spring-osgi-version>1.2.1</spring-osgi-version>
     <stax2-api-version>3.0.2</stax2-api-version>
     <taglibs-version>1.2.5</taglibs-version>
     <velocity-version>1.7</velocity-version>
@@ -809,11 +808,6 @@
         <artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
         <version>${spring-version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.springframework.osgi</groupId>
-          <artifactId>spring-osgi-core</artifactId>
-          <version>${spring-osgi-version}</version>
-      </dependency>
 
       <!-- Optional Derby support-->
       <dependency>