diff --git a/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/plugin/pom.xml b/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/plugin/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..271c608284
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+++ b/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/plugin/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.maven.it</groupId>
+    <version>1.0</version>
+    <artifactId>it0089-root</artifactId>
+  </parent>
+  
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+  <artifactId>maven-it0089-plugin</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>checkstyle</groupId>
+      <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
+      <version>4.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/it0089/Mojo.java b/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/it0089/Mojo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..27617fbc7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/it0089/Mojo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+package org.apache.maven.plugins.it0089;
+
+import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageNamesLoader;
+import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException;
+
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoFailureException;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+
+/**
+ * @goal test
+ */
+public class Mojo
+    extends AbstractMojo
+{
+    
+    /**
+     * @parameter default-value="${basedir}/target"
+     * @required
+     * @readonly
+     */
+    private File outDir;
+
+    public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException, MojoFailureException
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            PackageNamesLoader.loadModuleFactory(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
+            getLog().info( "Loaded checkstyle module factory.");
+            
+            outDir.mkdirs();
+            
+            File output = new File( outDir, "output.txt" );
+            Writer writer = null;
+            
+            try
+            {
+                writer = new FileWriter( output );
+                writer.write( "Success." );
+            }
+            catch ( IOException e )
+            {
+                throw new MojoExecutionException( "Failed to write output file.", e );
+            }
+            finally
+            {
+                if ( writer != null )
+                {
+                    try
+                    {
+                        writer.close();
+                    }
+                    catch ( IOException e )
+                    {
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        catch ( CheckstyleException e )
+        {
+            throw new MojoExecutionException( "Error loading checkstyle module factory.", e );
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/pom.xml b/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..755fc114fa
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+++ b/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.it</groupId>
+  <artifactId>it0089-root</artifactId>
+  <description>Test that Checkstyle PackageNamesLoader.loadModuleFactory(..) method will complete as-is with
+        the context classloader available to the plugin.
+       </description>
+  <version>1.0</version>
+
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+  <modules>
+    <module>plugin</module>
+    <module>project</module>
+  </modules>
+</project>
diff --git a/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/project/pom.xml b/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/project/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8489730af7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/it0089/project/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.maven.it</groupId>
+    <version>1.0</version>
+    <artifactId>it0089-root</artifactId>
+  </parent>
+
+  <artifactId>it0089</artifactId>
+
+  <name>Plugin Transitive Dependency Classloading Test</name>
+  
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-it0089-plugin</artifactId>
+        
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <phase>validate</phase>
+            
+            <goals>
+              <goal>test</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>