Add MANIFEST.MF file in the MATA-INF directory, and the following line to add the core Teiid API dependencies for resource adapter. Dependencies: org.jboss.teiid.common-core,org.jboss.teiid.api,javax.api If your translator depends upon any other third party jar files, then those jar files need to be defined under a module and then you can add the module name to the above MANIFEST.MF file to define as dependency.