diff --git a/activemq-karaf-itest/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/karaf/itest/ActiveMQAMQPBrokerFeatureTest.java b/activemq-karaf-itest/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/karaf/itest/ActiveMQAMQPBrokerFeatureTest.java
index 88c1d8589a..5c6c85df9b 100644
--- a/activemq-karaf-itest/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/karaf/itest/ActiveMQAMQPBrokerFeatureTest.java
+++ b/activemq-karaf-itest/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/karaf/itest/ActiveMQAMQPBrokerFeatureTest.java
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/**
+/*
  * 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.
@@ -23,12 +23,10 @@ import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
 import javax.jms.Connection;
 
 import org.apache.qpid.jms.JmsConnectionFactory;
-import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.ops4j.pax.exam.Configuration;
-import org.ops4j.pax.exam.CoreOptions;
 import org.ops4j.pax.exam.Option;
 import org.ops4j.pax.exam.junit.PaxExam;
 
@@ -38,44 +36,23 @@ public class ActiveMQAMQPBrokerFeatureTest extends ActiveMQBrokerFeatureTest {
 
     @Configuration
     public static Option[] configure() {
-        Option[] configure = configure("activemq");
+        Option[] configure = configure("activemq", "activemq-amqp-client");
 
         Option[] configuredOptions = configureBrokerStart(configure);
 
         return configuredOptions;
     }
 
-
-
-    @Before
-    public void setUpBundle() {
-
-        installWrappedBundle(CoreOptions.wrappedBundle(CoreOptions.mavenBundle(
-                "io.netty", "netty-all").version(
-                        getArtifactVersion("io.netty", "netty-all")).getURL().toString()
-                + "$Bundle-SymbolicName=qpid-jms-client"));
-        installWrappedBundle(CoreOptions.wrappedBundle(CoreOptions.mavenBundle(
-                "org.apache.qpid", "proton-j").version(
-                        getArtifactVersion("org.apache.qpid", "proton-j")).getURL()));
-        installWrappedBundle(CoreOptions.wrappedBundle(CoreOptions.mavenBundle(
-                "org.apache.qpid", "qpid-jms-client").version(
-                        getArtifactVersion("org.apache.qpid", "qpid-jms-client")).getURL()));
-    }
-
-
     @Override
     protected Connection getConnection() throws Throwable {
-        setUpBundle();
-
         withinReason(new Callable<Boolean>() {
             @Override
             public Boolean call() throws Exception {
-                assertTrue("qpid jms client bundle installed", verifyBundleInstalled("qpid-jms-client"));
+                assertTrue("qpid jms client bundle installed", verifyBundleInstalled("org.apache.qpid.jms.client"));
                 return true;
             }
         });
 
-
         String amqpURI = "amqp://localhost:" + AMQP_PORT;
         JmsConnectionFactory factory = new JmsConnectionFactory(amqpURI);
 
diff --git a/activemq-karaf/src/main/resources/features.xml b/activemq-karaf/src/main/resources/features.xml
index 07657706bb..6b1e10bffa 100644
--- a/activemq-karaf/src/main/resources/features.xml
+++ b/activemq-karaf/src/main/resources/features.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 <features name="activemq-${project.version}">
 
-    <repository>mvn:org.apache.activemq/activemq-karaf/${project.version}/xml/features-core</repository> 
+    <repository>mvn:org.apache.activemq/activemq-karaf/${project.version}/xml/features-core</repository>
 
     <!-- Starts the broker with default configuration -->
     <feature name="activemq-broker-noweb" description="Full ActiveMQ broker with default configuration" version="${project.version}" resolver="(obr)" start-level="50">
@@ -59,5 +59,15 @@
       <bundle>mvn:org.apache.activemq/activemq-blueprint/${project.version}</bundle>
     </feature>
 
-</features>
+    <feature name="activemq-amqp-client" version="${pom.version}" description="ActiveMQ AMQP protocol client libraries">
+      <bundle>mvn:io.netty/netty-common/${qpid-jms-netty-version}</bundle>
+      <bundle>mvn:io.netty/netty-transport/${qpid-jms-netty-version}</bundle>
+      <bundle>mvn:io.netty/netty-buffer/${qpid-jms-netty-version}</bundle>
+      <bundle>mvn:io.netty/netty-codec/${qpid-jms-netty-version}</bundle>
+      <bundle>mvn:io.netty/netty-codec-http/${qpid-jms-netty-version}</bundle>
+      <bundle>mvn:io.netty/netty-handler/${netty-all-version}</bundle>
+      <bundle>mvn:org.apache.qpid/proton-j/${qpid-jms-proton-version}</bundle>
+      <bundle>mvn:org.apache.qpid/qpid-jms-client/${qpid-jms-version}</bundle>
+    </feature>
 
+</features>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 10dabc9a10..f43bf47178 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@
     <zookeeper-version>3.4.6</zookeeper-version>
     <qpid-proton-version>0.15.0</qpid-proton-version>
     <qpid-jms-version>0.11.1</qpid-jms-version>
+    <qpid-jms-netty-version>4.0.41.Final</qpid-jms-netty-version>
+    <qpid-jms-proton-version>0.14.0</qpid-jms-proton-version>
     <netty-all-version>4.0.41.Final</netty-all-version>
     <regexp-version>1.3</regexp-version>
     <rome-version>1.0</rome-version>