Activating the Subsystem

By default the OSGi subsystem is activated lazily. It means that the framework will not start up unless you deploy an OSGi bundle. You can activate the OSGi subsystem explicitly by setting the activation property to 'eager'

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:osgi:1.2" activation="eager">

When you start up the AS7 you should see something like this

[tdiesler@tdvaio jboss-as-7.1.0.Final]$ bin/standalone.sh 
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  JBoss Bootstrap Environment

  JBOSS_HOME: /home/tdiesler/git/jboss-as-7.1.0.Final/build/target/jboss-as-7.1.0.Final

  JAVA: /usr/java/jdk1.6/bin/java

  JAVA_OPTS:  ...

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13:56:32,414 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] JBoss Modules version 1.1.1.GA
13:56:32,700 INFO  [org.jboss.msc] JBoss MSC version 1.0.2.GA
13:56:32,802 INFO  [org.jboss.as] JBAS015899: JBoss AS 7.1.0.Final "Thunder" starting
...
13:56:35,357 INFO  JBossOSGi Framework Core - 1.1.5
13:56:35,628 INFO  Install bundle: system.bundle:0.0.0
...
13:56:36,007 INFO  Install bundle: javax.transaction.api:0.0.0
13:56:36,009 INFO  Install bundle: jboss-osgi-logging:1.0.0
13:56:36,056 INFO  Install bundle: jboss-as-osgi-configadmin:7.1.0.Final
13:56:36,124 INFO  Install bundle: org.apache.felix.log:1.0.0
13:56:36,191 INFO  Install bundle: jbosgi-http-api:1.0.5
13:56:36,191 INFO  Install bundle: org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.2.8
13:56:36,490 INFO  Install bundle: osgi.enterprise:4.2.0.201003190513
13:56:36,683 INFO  Starting bundles for start level: 1
13:56:36,686 INFO  Bundle started: jbosgi-http-api:1.0.5
13:56:36,687 INFO  Bundle started: osgi.enterprise:4.2.0.201003190513
13:56:36,705 INFO  Bundle started: jboss-as-osgi-configadmin:7.1.0.Final
13:56:36,722 INFO  Bundle started: jboss-osgi-logging:1.0.0
13:56:36,758 INFO  Bundle started: org.apache.felix.log:1.0.0
13:56:36,760 INFO  Bundle started: javax.transaction.api:0.0.0
13:56:36,797 INFO  Bundle started: org.apache.felix.configadmin:1.2.8
13:56:36,813 INFO  OSGi Framework started
13:56:36,836 INFO  JBAS015874: JBoss AS 7.1.0.Final "Thunder" started in 4804ms