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+package org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.osgi;
+
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.guava.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.api.CommitFailedException;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.SegmentNodeStore;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.SegmentNodeStoreBuilders;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.file.FileStore;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.file.FileStoreBuilder;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.file.InvalidFileStoreVersionException;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.file.tar.TarPersistence;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.spi.persistence.SegmentNodeStorePersistence;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.commit.CommitInfo;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.commit.EmptyHook;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.state.NodeBuilder;
+import org.apache.sling.testing.mock.osgi.junit.OsgiContext;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.notNullValue;
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+
+public class SplitPersistenceServiceTest {
+    @Rule
+    public final OsgiContext ctx = new OsgiContext();
+
+    @Rule
+    public TemporaryFolder folder = new TemporaryFolder(new File("target"));
+
+    /**
+     *  Verifies that a minimally-configured <tt>SplitPersistence</tt> can be registered successfully
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void bootstrap() throws IOException, InvalidFileStoreVersionException, CommitFailedException {
+        File roDir = folder.newFolder();
+        SegmentNodeStorePersistence roPersistence = new TarPersistence(roDir);
+
+        FileStore baseFileStore = FileStoreBuilder
+                .fileStoreBuilder(roDir)
+                .withCustomPersistence(roPersistence)
+                .build();
+        SegmentNodeStore base = SegmentNodeStoreBuilders.builder(baseFileStore).build();
+
+        NodeBuilder builder = base.getRoot().builder();
+        builder.child("foo").child("bar").setProperty("version", "v1");
+        base.merge(builder, EmptyHook.INSTANCE, CommitInfo.EMPTY);
+        baseFileStore.flush();
+        baseFileStore.close();
+
+        SegmentNodeStorePersistence localPersistence = new TarPersistence(folder.newFolder());
+
+        ctx.registerService(SegmentNodeStorePersistence.class, roPersistence, ImmutableMap.of("role", "split-persistence-ro"));
+        ctx.registerService(SegmentNodeStorePersistence.class, localPersistence, ImmutableMap.of("role", "split-persistence-rw"));
+
+        ctx.registerInjectActivateService(new SplitPersistenceService());
+
+        SegmentNodeStorePersistence[] services = ctx.getServices(SegmentNodeStorePersistence.class, null);
+        assertThat("No SegmentNodeStorePersistence registered", services, notNullValue());
+        assertThat("SegmentNodeStorePersistence registrations different of 3", services.length, is(3));
+    }
+}