diff --git a/appc-inbound/appc-design-services/provider/pom.xml b/appc-inbound/appc-design-services/provider/pom.xml
index 7197c06..f4ffee6 100755
--- a/appc-inbound/appc-design-services/provider/pom.xml
+++ b/appc-inbound/appc-design-services/provider/pom.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
                     <instructions>
                         <Export-Package>org.onap.appc.design.services</Export-Package>
                         <Import-Package>org.onap.appc.instar,*;resolution:=optional</Import-Package>
-                        <Embed-Dependency>jackson-dataformat-yaml</Embed-Dependency>
                          <DynamicImport-Package>*</DynamicImport-Package>
                         <Embed-Transitive>true</Embed-Transitive>
                     </instructions>
@@ -141,13 +140,20 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
-            <version>2.3.2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
+            <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
         </dependency>
diff --git a/appc-inbound/appc-design-services/provider/src/main/java/org/onap/appc/design/validator/ValidatorService.java b/appc-inbound/appc-design-services/provider/src/main/java/org/onap/appc/design/validator/ValidatorService.java
index 9f1715e..34df83d 100644
--- a/appc-inbound/appc-design-services/provider/src/main/java/org/onap/appc/design/validator/ValidatorService.java
+++ b/appc-inbound/appc-design-services/provider/src/main/java/org/onap/appc/design/validator/ValidatorService.java
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.snakeyaml.introspector.BeanAccess;
+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml;
+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.introspector.BeanAccess;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;