diff --git a/tooling/karaf-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/karaf/tooling/AssemblyMojo.java b/tooling/karaf-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/karaf/tooling/AssemblyMojo.java
index 254d993..07ab6fd 100644
--- a/tooling/karaf-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/karaf/tooling/AssemblyMojo.java
+++ b/tooling/karaf-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/karaf/tooling/AssemblyMojo.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
 
+import org.apache.karaf.features.internal.model.processing.ObjectFactory;
 import org.apache.karaf.profile.assembly.Builder;
 import org.apache.karaf.tooling.utils.IoUtils;
 import org.apache.karaf.tooling.utils.MavenUtil;
@@ -438,6 +439,8 @@
     @Override
     public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException, MojoFailureException {
         try {
+        	workAround_Maven_MNG_6506_JDK_9();
+        	
             setNullListsToEmpty();
             setNullMapsToEmpty();
 
@@ -831,4 +834,15 @@
         return map == null ? new LinkedHashMap<>() : map;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Fix https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6506
+     */
+    private void workAround_Maven_MNG_6506_JDK_9() {
+    	try {
+			this.getClass().getClassLoader().loadClass(ObjectFactory.class.getPackage().getName() + ".package-info");
+		} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+			// IGNORE
+		}
+    }
+
 }