diff --git a/hapi-fhir-osgi-core/pom.xml b/hapi-fhir-osgi-core/pom.xml
index 0d93f4896fc..2593b1a0eb0 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-osgi-core/pom.xml
+++ b/hapi-fhir-osgi-core/pom.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 						<Embed-Dependency>*;scope=!provided|test</Embed-Dependency>
 						<Embed-Directory>lib</Embed-Directory>
 						<Embed-Transitive>true</Embed-Transitive>
-						<_removeheaders>Built-By</_removeheaders>
+						<_removeheaders>Built-By, Include-Resource, Private-Package</_removeheaders>
 						<!-- <Private-Package>org.foo.myproject.*</Private-Package> <Bundle-Activator>org.foo.myproject.impl1.Activator</Bundle-Activator> -->
 					</instructions>
 				</configuration>
@@ -70,6 +70,24 @@
 					</execution>
 				</executions>
 			</plugin>
+
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
+				<configuration>
+					<redirectTestOutputToFile>true</redirectTestOutputToFile>
+				</configuration>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>integration-test</goal>
+							<goal>verify</goal>
+						</goals>
+						<phase>integration-test</phase>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+			</plugin>
+
 		</plugins>
 		<resources>
 			<resource>
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-osgi-core/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/osgi/ManifestIT.java b/hapi-fhir-osgi-core/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/osgi/ManifestIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4c45a21e8dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-osgi-core/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/osgi/ManifestIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package ca.uhn.fhir.osgi;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.not;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+
+import java.io.FileReader;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class ManifestIT {
+
+	/**
+	 * See #234 
+	 */
+	@Test
+	public void testValidateManifest() throws Exception {
+		
+		FileReader r = new FileReader("./target/classes/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF");
+		String file = IOUtils.toString(r);
+		
+		assertThat(file, not(containsString(".jar=/")));
+	}
+	
+}
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-osgi-core/src/test/resources/.keep b/hapi-fhir-osgi-core/src/test/resources/.keep
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 7754e200f34..a5d7588cec7 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@
 				if they did not contain a question mark. Thanks
 				to Bill de Beaubien for reporting!
 			</action>
+			<action type="fix" issue="234">
+				Remove invalid entries in OSGi Manifest. Thanks
+				to Alexander Kley for the fix!
+			</action>
 		</release>
 		<release version="1.2" date="2015-09-18">
 			<action type="add">