diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 92c0e88382..2b1207ee74 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ atlassian-ide-plugin.xml
 .java-version
 .factorypath
 .apt_generated
+.apt_generated_tests
 .checkstyle
 nb-configuration.xml
 nbactions.xml
 /.nb-gradle/
+dependency-reduced-pom.xml
+.vscode
diff --git a/apis/chef/src/main/java/org/jclouds/chef/config/ChefParserModule.java b/apis/chef/src/main/java/org/jclouds/chef/config/ChefParserModule.java
index da4084d6c2..fac073b8a0 100644
--- a/apis/chef/src/main/java/org/jclouds/chef/config/ChefParserModule.java
+++ b/apis/chef/src/main/java/org/jclouds/chef/config/ChefParserModule.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import org.jclouds.crypto.Crypto;
 import org.jclouds.crypto.Pems;
 import org.jclouds.json.config.GsonModule.DateAdapter;
 import org.jclouds.json.config.GsonModule.Iso8601DateAdapter;
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.JsonReaderInternalAccess;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.NullFilteringTypeAdapterFactories;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.NullFilteringTypeAdapterFactories.MapTypeAdapterFactory;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.NullHackJsonLiteralAdapter;
@@ -53,7 +54,6 @@ import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
 import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;
 import com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException;
 import com.google.gson.TypeAdapter;
-import com.google.gson.internal.JsonReaderInternalAccess;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonToken;
 import com.google.inject.AbstractModule;
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index cfa23c60f5..674b93a23b 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -78,9 +78,8 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
-      <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-      <version>2.5</version>
+      <groupId>org.apache.jclouds</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jclouds-gson</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/config/GsonModule.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/config/GsonModule.java
index 7b8bd0cddb..ebe8cf1ffb 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/config/GsonModule.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/config/GsonModule.java
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ import org.jclouds.domain.JsonBall;
 import org.jclouds.domain.LoginCredentials;
 import org.jclouds.json.Json;
 import org.jclouds.json.SerializedNames;
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.ConstructorConstructor;
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.Excluder;
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.JsonReaderInternalAccess;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.DeserializationConstructorAndReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.EnumTypeAdapterThatReturnsFromValue;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.GsonWrapper;
@@ -71,9 +74,6 @@ import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
 import com.google.gson.InstanceCreator;
 import com.google.gson.TypeAdapter;
 import com.google.gson.TypeAdapterFactory;
-import com.google.gson.internal.ConstructorConstructor;
-import com.google.gson.internal.Excluder;
-import com.google.gson.internal.JsonReaderInternalAccess;
 import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter;
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/DeserializationConstructorAndReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/DeserializationConstructorAndReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java
index ae0780986b..1df3f5ad2c 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/DeserializationConstructorAndReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/DeserializationConstructorAndReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.ConstructorConstructor;
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.Excluder;
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.NamingStrategies.AnnotationConstructorNamingStrategy;
 
 import com.google.common.base.MoreObjects;
@@ -40,9 +43,6 @@ import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException;
 import com.google.gson.TypeAdapter;
 import com.google.gson.TypeAdapterFactory;
-import com.google.gson.internal.ConstructorConstructor;
-import com.google.gson.internal.Excluder;
-import com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory;
 import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonToken;
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/NullFilteringTypeAdapterFactories.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/NullFilteringTypeAdapterFactories.java
index 85dd545a0b..cdef883b7a 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/NullFilteringTypeAdapterFactories.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/NullFilteringTypeAdapterFactories.java
@@ -16,6 +16,20 @@
  */
 package org.jclouds.json.internal;
 
+import static com.google.common.base.MoreObjects.toStringHelper;
+import static com.google.common.base.Objects.equal;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.JsonReaderInternalAccess;
+
 import com.google.common.base.Objects;
 import com.google.common.collect.FluentIterable;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableCollection;
@@ -27,24 +41,11 @@ import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.TypeAdapter;
 import com.google.gson.TypeAdapterFactory;
-import com.google.gson.internal.JsonReaderInternalAccess;
 import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonToken;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
-import java.lang.reflect.Type;
-import java.util.Collection;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Map.Entry;
-import java.util.Set;
-
-import static com.google.common.base.Objects.equal;
-import static com.google.common.base.MoreObjects.toStringHelper;
-
 /**
  * Eliminates null values when deserializing Collections, Maps, and Multimaps
  * <p/>
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ public class NullFilteringTypeAdapterFactories {
    }
 
    static <T> TypeToken<?> resolve(TypeToken<T> ownerType, Type param) {
-      return TypeToken.get(com.google.gson.internal.$Gson$Types.resolve(ownerType.getType(), ownerType.getRawType(),
+      return TypeToken.get(org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.$Gson$Types.resolve(ownerType.getType(), ownerType.getRawType(),
             param));
    }
 
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/NullHackJsonLiteralAdapter.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/NullHackJsonLiteralAdapter.java
index 15661763d2..e1f89098be 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/NullHackJsonLiteralAdapter.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/NullHackJsonLiteralAdapter.java
@@ -20,9 +20,10 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters;
+
 import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
 import com.google.gson.TypeAdapter;
-import com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
 import com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter;
 
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/DeserializationConstructorAndReflectiveTypeAdapterFactoryTest.java b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/DeserializationConstructorAndReflectiveTypeAdapterFactoryTest.java
index 1d54d09c61..8b6ce9c582 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/DeserializationConstructorAndReflectiveTypeAdapterFactoryTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/json/internal/DeserializationConstructorAndReflectiveTypeAdapterFactoryTest.java
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ import javax.inject.Inject;
 import javax.inject.Named;
 
 import org.jclouds.json.SerializedNames;
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.ConstructorConstructor;
+import org.jclouds.json.gson.internal.Excluder;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.NamingStrategies.AnnotationConstructorNamingStrategy;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.NamingStrategies.AnnotationOrNameFieldNamingStrategy;
 import org.jclouds.json.internal.NamingStrategies.ExtractNamed;
@@ -48,8 +50,6 @@ import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
 import com.google.gson.InstanceCreator;
 import com.google.gson.TypeAdapter;
-import com.google.gson.internal.ConstructorConstructor;
-import com.google.gson.internal.Excluder;
 import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
 
 @Test(testName = "DeserializationConstructorTypeAdapterFactoryTest")
diff --git a/gson/pom.xml b/gson/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..949fb158ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gson/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+    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.
+
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <artifactId>jclouds-project</artifactId>
+    <groupId>org.apache.jclouds</groupId>
+    <version>2.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <relativePath>../project/pom.xml</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+
+  <!-- 
+    JCLOUDS-1166: This project relocates the 'com.google.gson.internal' package
+    so we can keep using its contents in OSGi environments.
+    This is a temporal solution and we should try to remove the usages of the classes in
+    there and remove this once that is done.
+  -->
+  <artifactId>jclouds-gson</artifactId>
+  <name>jclouds gson copy without internal packages</name>
+  <packaging>bundle</packaging>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
+      <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
+      <version>2.5</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.2</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>shade</id>
+            <phase>package</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>shade</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+        <configuration>
+          <artifactSet>
+            <includes>
+              <include>com.google.code.gson:gson</include>
+            </includes>
+          </artifactSet>
+          <relocations>
+            <relocation>
+              <pattern>com.google.gson.internal</pattern>
+              <shadedPattern>org.jclouds.json.gson.internal</shadedPattern>
+            </relocation>
+          </relocations>
+          <transformers>
+            <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer" />
+          </transformers>
+          <promoteTransitiveDependencies>true</promoteTransitiveDependencies>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fb4bf271fc..c16d8299dd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
   <modules>
     <module>project</module>
     <module>resources</module>
+    <module>gson</module>
     <module>core</module>
     <module>common</module>
     <module>compute</module>
diff --git a/project/pom.xml b/project/pom.xml
index 9fe9136f7f..ec91ce1f4c 100644
--- a/project/pom.xml
+++ b/project/pom.xml
@@ -254,6 +254,27 @@
         <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
         <version>${guava.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.jclouds</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-gson</artifactId>
+        <version>${project.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <!--
+            Due to the following issues:
+              https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHADE-206
+              https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5899
+            The Maven reactor ignores the reduced pom.xml generated by the shade plugin, and all
+            the dependencies that are shaded are included as normal dependencies too, causing
+            duplicate class issues.
+            This exclusion makes sure projects including the shaded version don't get the original
+            gson dependency as well. 
+          -->
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
+            <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
         <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
@@ -517,9 +538,11 @@
             <exclude>**/modernizer_exclusions.txt</exclude>
             <exclude>**/.factorypath</exclude>
             <exclude>**/.apt_generated/**</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/.apt_generated_tests/**</exclude>
             <exclude>**/.checkstyle</exclude>
             <exclude>nb-configuration.xml</exclude>
             <exclude>nbactions.xml</exclude>
+            <exclude>dependency-reduced-pom.xml</exclude>
 
             <!-- Temporary files generated on CloudBees slaves -->
             <exclude>.repository/**</exclude>
@@ -592,6 +615,32 @@
                 <package>com.jcraft.jsch.agentproxy</package>
               </packages>
             </exception>
+            <!--
+              TODO: Remove this when the issues are fixed or we have completely moved away from
+                    gson.internal
+              Due to the following issues:
+                https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHADE-206
+                https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5899
+              The contents of the shaded gson jar are directly included as part of jclouds-core.
+              The classes are exactly the same, so it is safe to exclude them here.
+            -->
+            <exception>
+              <conflictingDependencies>
+                <dependency>
+                  <groupId>org.apache.jclouds</groupId>
+                  <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
+                  <version>${project.version}</version>
+                </dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                  <groupId>org.apache.jclouds</groupId>
+                  <artifactId>jclouds-gson</artifactId>
+                  <version>${project.version}</version>
+                </dependency>
+              </conflictingDependencies>
+              <packages>
+                <package>org.jclouds.json.gson.internal</package>
+              </packages>
+            </exception>
           </exceptions>
           <ignoredResourcePatterns>
             <!-- For all the jetty packages -->
diff --git a/resources/checkstyle.xml b/resources/checkstyle.xml
index 395ba67fac..d686ac73da 100644
--- a/resources/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/resources/checkstyle.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
         </module>
         <module name="IllegalImport">
             <!-- Avoid importing AutoValue shaded packages such as Guava -->
-            <property name="illegalPkgs" value="sun,autovalue,org.testng.internal"/>
+            <property name="illegalPkgs" value="sun,autovalue,org.testng.internal,com.google.gson.internal"/>
         </module>
         <module name="WhitespaceAfter">
             <!-- TYPECAST disabled -->