diff --git a/dspace-sword/dspace-sword-api/pom.xml b/dspace-sword/dspace-sword-api/pom.xml
index 797959529e..561ebc6f85 100644
--- a/dspace-sword/dspace-sword-api/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace-sword/dspace-sword-api/pom.xml
@@ -45,8 +45,19 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.dspace</groupId>
             <artifactId>dspace-api</artifactId>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                 <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
+        <dependency>
+         <groupId>org.dspace</groupId>
+         <artifactId>dspace-services-impl</artifactId>
+      </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.dspace</groupId>
             <artifactId>dspace-api-lang</artifactId>
diff --git a/dspace-sword/dspace-sword-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/dspace-sword/dspace-sword-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index d98255c54f..3c639c55a9 100644
--- a/dspace-sword/dspace-sword-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/dspace-sword/dspace-sword-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@
    <!-- 
    Listener to initialise DSpace configuration and clean up the application 
    -->
+    <listener>
+      <listener-class>
+         org.dspace.servicemanager.servlet.DSpaceKernelServletContextListener
+      </listener-class>
+   </listener>
    <listener>
       <listener-class>
          org.dspace.app.util.DSpaceContextListener