With the OSGi Repository implementation in place it is possible to provision the system with bundles from a remote maven repository (i.e. nexus). An optimization would be to fetch the artefacts from the local 'modules' or 'bundles' directory in the AS7 distribution.

These configured capabilities could be removed

                <!-- bundles started in startlevel 2 -->
                <capability name="org.jboss.netty" startlevel="2"/>
                <capability name="org.projectodd.stilts" startlevel="2"/>

The SimpleStompletTestCase could use the Repository API to provision these bundles on demand.