diff --git a/default.crank.txt b/default.crank.txt
index 3d581f0..7116683 100644
--- a/default.crank.txt
+++ b/default.crank.txt
@@ -1,21 +1,32 @@
 # Minimal webconsole example for the Sling crankstart launcher
 
-# OSGi framework properties
+# Set bootstrap classpath, mvn: protocol can be used
+classpath mvn:org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.framework/4.4.0
+classpath mvn:org.osgi/org.osgi.compendium/4.2.0
+classpath mvn:org.slf4j/slf4j-api/1.6.2
+classpath mvn:org.slf4j/slf4j-simple/1.6.2
+classpath mvn:org.ops4j.pax.url/pax-url-aether/1.6.0
+classpath mvn:org.ops4j.pax.url/pax-url-commons/1.6.0
+
+# Except the bootstrap launcher, crankstart jars are also provided via classpath
+classpath mvn:org.apache.sling/org.apache.sling.crankstart.core/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
+classpath mvn:org.apache.sling/org.apache.sling.crankstart.api/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
+
+# Set OSGi framework properties
 osgi.property org.osgi.service.http.port 1234
 
 # Once OSGi properties are set, start the framework
 start.framework
 
 # Install a minimal set of bundles for now, just to 
-# demonstrate that we can start the webconsole
-# Crankstart gets bundles from a Maven repository, which
-# is not configurable for now.
-bundle org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.configadmin/1.2.8
-bundle org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.http.jetty/2.2.0
-bundle org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.metatype/1.0.4
-bundle org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.scr/1.6.0
-bundle org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.webconsole/3.1.6
-bundle org.apache.sling/org.apache.sling.commons.log/2.1.2
+# demonstrate that we can start the webconsole.
+# mvn: protocol can be used.
+bundle mvn:org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.configadmin/1.2.8
+bundle mvn:org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.http.jetty/2.2.0
+bundle mvn:org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.metatype/1.0.4
+bundle mvn:org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.scr/1.6.0
+bundle mvn:org.apache.felix/org.apache.felix.webconsole/3.1.6
+bundle mvn:org.apache.sling/org.apache.sling.commons.log/2.1.2
 
 # Start all bundles and log a friendly message
 start.all.bundles
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 54e8c79..a91b9f2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
                             <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
                         </goals>
                         <configuration>
-                            <includeGroupIds>org.osgi,org.apache.felix,org.slf4j,javax.servlet,org.ops4j.pax.url,org.apache.sling</includeGroupIds>
+                            <includeGroupIds>org.slf4j,org.ops4j.pax.url</includeGroupIds>
                             <excludeTransitive>false</excludeTransitive>
                             <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes</outputDirectory>
                             <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
@@ -85,21 +85,15 @@
     </build>   
 
     <dependencies>
-       <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
-            <artifactId>org.osgi.compendium</artifactId>
-            <version>4.2.0</version>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
-            <artifactId>org.apache.felix.framework</artifactId>
-            <version>4.0.0</version>
+            <groupId>org.apache.sling</groupId>
+            <artifactId>org.apache.sling.crankstart.api</artifactId>
+            <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.sling</groupId>
-            <artifactId>org.apache.sling.crankstart.api</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>org.apache.sling.crankstart.core</artifactId>
             <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
@@ -107,12 +101,13 @@
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
             <version>1.6.2</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
          <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
             <version>1.6.2</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.ops4j.pax.url</groupId>
@@ -126,11 +121,5 @@
             <version>${pax.url.version}</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>junit</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.11</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
       </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/launcher/CrankstartFileProcessor.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/launcher/CrankstartFileProcessor.java
deleted file mode 100644
index c3e6794..0000000
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/launcher/CrankstartFileProcessor.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * 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.
- */
-package org.apache.sling.crankstart.launcher;
-
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.Reader;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.List;
-
-import org.apache.sling.crankstart.api.CrankstartCommand;
-import org.apache.sling.crankstart.api.CrankstartContext;
-import org.apache.sling.crankstart.launcher.commands.InstallBundle;
-import org.apache.sling.crankstart.launcher.commands.Log;
-import org.apache.sling.crankstart.launcher.commands.SetOsgiFrameworkProperty;
-import org.apache.sling.crankstart.launcher.commands.StartBundles;
-import org.apache.sling.crankstart.launcher.commands.StartFramework;
-import org.osgi.framework.BundleException;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
-/** Process a crankstart file */
-public class CrankstartFileProcessor {
-    private final CrankstartContext crankstartContext = new CrankstartContext();
-    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
-    private List<CrankstartCommand> commands = new ArrayList<CrankstartCommand>();
-    
-    public CrankstartFileProcessor() {
-        System.setProperty( "java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "org.ops4j.pax.url" );
-        
-        commands.add(new InstallBundle());
-        commands.add(new Log());
-        commands.add(new SetOsgiFrameworkProperty());
-        commands.add(new StartBundles());
-        commands.add(new StartFramework());
-    }
-    
-    public void process(Reader input) throws IOException, BundleException {
-        final BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(input);
-        String line = null;
-        while((line = r.readLine()) != null) {
-            if(line.length() == 0 || line.startsWith("#")) {
-                // ignore comments and blank lines
-            } else {
-                for(CrankstartCommand c : commands) {
-                    if(c.appliesTo(line)) {
-                        try {
-                            c.execute(crankstartContext, line);
-                        } catch(Exception e) {
-                            log.warn("Command execution failed", e);
-                        }
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    
-    public void waitForExit() throws InterruptedException {
-        if(crankstartContext.getOsgiFramework() == null) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("OSGi framework not started");
-        }
-        log.info("Waiting for OSGi framework to exit...");
-        crankstartContext.getOsgiFramework().waitForStop(0);
-        log.info("OSGi framework exited");
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/launcher/Main.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/launcher/Main.java
index e858143..225d859 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/launcher/Main.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/launcher/Main.java
@@ -16,12 +16,23 @@
  */
 package org.apache.sling.crankstart.launcher;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLClassLoader;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
+
+import org.apache.sling.crankstart.api.CrankstartConstants;
 
 /** Execute a crankstart file */
 public class Main {
+    public static final String CLASSPATH_PREFIX = "classpath ";
+    
     public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception {
         String crankFile = "default.crank.txt";
         if(args.length < 1) {
@@ -30,11 +41,32 @@
         } else {
             crankFile = args[0];
         }
-        final Reader r = new FileReader(new File(crankFile));
+        System.setProperty(CrankstartConstants.CRANKSTART_INPUT_FILENAME, crankFile);
+        System.setProperty( "java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "org.ops4j.pax.url" );
+        final URL [] launcherClasspath = getClasspath(crankFile);
+        
+        final URLClassLoader launcherClassloader = new URLClassLoader(launcherClasspath, null);
+        final String callableClass = "org.apache.sling.crankstart.core.CrankstartFileProcessor";
+        
+        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+        final Callable<Object> c = (Callable<Object>)launcherClassloader.loadClass(callableClass).newInstance();
+        c.call();
+    }
+    
+    private static URL[] getClasspath(String filename) throws IOException {
+        final List<URL> urls = new ArrayList<URL>();
+        final Reader input = new FileReader(new File(filename));
+        final BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(input);
         try {
-            final CrankstartFileProcessor p = new CrankstartFileProcessor();
-            p.process(r);
-            p.waitForExit();
+            String line = null;
+            while((line = r.readLine()) != null) {
+                if(line.length() == 0 || line.startsWith("#")) {
+                    // ignore comments and blank lines
+                } else if(line.startsWith(CLASSPATH_PREFIX)){
+                    urls.add(new URL(line.substring(CLASSPATH_PREFIX.length()).trim()));
+                }
+            }
+            return urls.toArray(new URL[] {});
         } finally {
             r.close();
         }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/MavenUrlTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/MavenUrlTest.java
deleted file mode 100644
index ebd66bb..0000000
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/sling/crankstart/MavenUrlTest.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * 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.
- */
-package org.apache.sling.crankstart;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.net.URL;
-
-import org.junit.Test;
-
-public class MavenUrlTest {
-    @Test
-    public void testResolveArtifactl() throws IOException {
-        System.setProperty( "java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "org.ops4j.pax.url" );
-        
-        //TODO does pax url use the default local repo? 
-        //System.setProperty( "org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.localRepository", localRepoPath );
-
-       final URL url = new URL( "mvn:commons-lang/commons-lang/1.0" );
-       url.openStream().close();
-       }
-}