diff --git a/application-local.yml b/application-local.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7dbc39f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/application-local.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+server:
+  port: 8081
+
+spring:
+  activemq:
+    broker-url: tcp://localhost:61616
+    user: admin
+    password: admin
+
+backbase:
+  event-emitter:
+    #comma-separated list topic names
+    topic-names: com.backbase.dbs.messages.pandp.event.spec.v4.MessageReceivedEvent
+
+logging:
+  level:
+    com:
+      backbase: DEBUG
+    org:
+      springframework:
+        cloud: DEBUG
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bb94069..55be3f7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,16 +5,17 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.backbase.buildingblocks</groupId>
         <artifactId>service-sdk-starter-core</artifactId>
-        <version>15.1.0</version>
+        <version>16.1.5</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>com.backbase.testing</groupId>
     <artifactId>event-emitter</artifactId>
-    <version>1.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <packaging>war</packaging>
+    <version>1.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <name>Backbase :: Testing Components :: Events Emitter</name>
 
     <properties>
+        <archunit.skip>true</archunit.skip>
         <action-service.version>1.1.5</action-service.version>
 
         <!--EVENTS-->
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@
         <payment-order-service.version>1.3.92</payment-order-service.version>
         <contact-manager.version>2.0.6</contact-manager.version>
         <pocket-tailor.version>0.5</pocket-tailor.version>
-        <audit-spec-version>1.0.47</audit-spec-version>
+        <audit-spec.version>7.0.0</audit-spec.version>
 
         <java.version>17</java.version>
         <api.target>${project.build.directory}/downloaded-api</api.target>
@@ -42,10 +43,12 @@
         <apache-commons-beanutils.version>1.9.4</apache-commons-beanutils.version>
         <hamcrest-date.version>2.0.7</hamcrest-date.version>
         <dbunit.version>2.6.0</dbunit.version>
-        <boat.version>0.14.0</boat.version>
-        <swagger-annotations.version>1.6.2</swagger-annotations.version>
+        <boat.version>0.17.20</boat.version>
+        <swagger-core-annotations.version>2.2.15</swagger-core-annotations.version>
         <jackson-databind-nullable.version>0.2.1</jackson-databind-nullable.version>
         <wagon.plugin.version>2.0.0</wagon.plugin.version>
+        <testcontainers.version>1.17.6</testcontainers.version>
+        <lombok-mapstruct-binding.version>0.2.0</lombok-mapstruct-binding.version>
 
         <sonar.jacoco.reportPaths>target/coverage-reports/jacoco.exec,target/coverage-reports/jacoco-it.exec</sonar.jacoco.reportPaths>
         <sonar.sources>src/main/java,pom.xml</sonar.sources>
@@ -64,7 +67,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
                 <artifactId>testcontainers-bom</artifactId>
-                <version>1.17.5</version>
+                <version>${testcontainers.version}</version>
                 <type>pom</type>
                 <scope>import</scope>
             </dependency>
@@ -76,6 +79,10 @@
             <groupId>com.backbase.buildingblocks</groupId>
             <artifactId>events</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.backbase.buildingblocks</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-binder-jms-activemq</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.backbase.buildingblocks</groupId>
             <artifactId>api</artifactId>
@@ -121,9 +128,9 @@
             <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.swagger</groupId>
+            <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
             <artifactId>swagger-annotations</artifactId>
-            <version>${swagger-annotations.version}</version>
+            <version>${swagger-core-annotations.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.openapitools</groupId>
@@ -148,6 +155,10 @@
             <artifactId>mapstruct-processor</artifactId>
             <version>${mapstruct.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>jakarta.annotation</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jakarta.annotation-api</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
@@ -160,7 +171,6 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
-            <version>5.8.1</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -220,6 +230,11 @@
                             <artifactId>service-sdk-starter-mapping</artifactId>
                             <version>${project.parent.version}</version>
                         </path>
+                        <dependency>
+                            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>lombok-mapstruct-binding</artifactId>
+                            <version>${lombok-mapstruct-binding.version}</version>
+                        </dependency>
                     </annotationProcessorPaths>
                     <compilerArgs>
                         <compilerArg>-Amapstruct.unmappedTargetPolicy=ERROR</compilerArg>
@@ -319,9 +334,11 @@
                                 <artifactItem>
                                     <groupId>com.backbase.dbs.audit</groupId>
                                     <artifactId>audit-spec</artifactId>
-                                    <type>jar</type>
-                                    <version>${audit-spec-version}</version>
-                                    <outputDirectory>target/unpacked-specs/audit-spec</outputDirectory>
+                                    <version>${audit-spec.version}</version>
+                                    <type>zip</type>
+                                    <classifier>events</classifier>
+                                    <overWrite>true</overWrite>
+                                    <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/unpacked-specs/audit-spec/events</outputDirectory>
                                 </artifactItem>
                             </artifactItems>
                         </configuration>
@@ -437,16 +454,17 @@
                         </configuration>
                     </execution>
                     <execution>
-                        <id>audit-events</id>
+                        <id>audit-spec</id>
                         <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                         <goals>
                             <goal>events-generation</goal>
                         </goals>
                         <configuration>
+                            <inputFile>target/unpacked-specs/audit-spec/events/</inputFile>
                             <outputFile>target/generated-sources/</outputFile>
-                            <inputFile>target/unpacked-specs/audit-spec/events</inputFile>
-                            <packageName>audit.persistence</packageName>
                             <packageVersion>1</packageVersion>
+                            <packageName>audit.persistence</packageName>
+                            <groupNameStrategy>APP_NAME</groupNameStrategy>
                         </configuration>
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/EventEmittingController.java b/src/main/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/EventEmittingController.java
index c27561c..b7f61b4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/EventEmittingController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/EventEmittingController.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package com.backbase.eo.testing.events.emitter;
 
 import com.backbase.buildingblocks.backend.communication.context.OriginatorContext;
-import  com.backbase.buildingblocks.backend.communication.event.EnvelopedEvent;
+import com.backbase.buildingblocks.backend.communication.event.EnvelopedEvent;
 import com.backbase.buildingblocks.backend.communication.event.proxy.EventBus;
 import com.backbase.buildingblocks.persistence.model.Event;
 import com.backbase.buildingblocks.presentation.errors.BadRequestException;
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.UUID;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
-import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+import jakarta.annotation.Nullable;
 
 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
 import org.reflections.Reflections;
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/RawEmittingController.java b/src/main/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/RawEmittingController.java
index a299799..73fcbb7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/RawEmittingController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/RawEmittingController.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
 
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/EventEmitterIT.java b/src/test/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/EventEmitterIT.java
index e9ce990..c5c6b91 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/EventEmitterIT.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/backbase/eo/testing/events/emitter/EventEmitterIT.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import com.backbase.eo.testing.events.EventEmitter;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter;
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
 import org.junit.ClassRule;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.UUID;
+import org.testcontainers.containers.output.Slf4jLogConsumer;
 
 /**
  * {@link EventEmitterIT}
@@ -49,6 +51,7 @@
 @ActiveProfiles({"default", "it"})
 @SpringBootTest(classes = {EventEmitter.class, TestEventConsumerConfiguration.class})
 @ContextConfiguration(classes = {EventEmitter.class, TestEventConsumerConfiguration.class}, initializers = {EventEmitterIT.Initializer.class})
+@Slf4j
 class EventEmitterIT {
 
     @Autowired
@@ -62,7 +65,8 @@ class EventEmitterIT {
     @ClassRule
     public static DockerComposeContainer environment = new DockerComposeContainer(
         new File("src/test/resources/docker-compose.yml"))
-        .withExposedService("message-broker", 61616);
+        .withExposedService("message-broker", 61616)
+        .withLogConsumer("message-broker", new Slf4jLogConsumer(log));
 
     @BeforeAll
     public static void envSetup() {
@@ -82,7 +86,7 @@ public void initialize(ConfigurableApplicationContext configurableApplicationCon
                     "spring.event-emitter.topic-names=" + EVENT_DESTINATION,
                     "spring.cloud.stream.bindings.consumeTestEvent-in-0.group=event-emitter",
                     "spring.cloud.stream.bindings.consumeTestEvent-in-0.destination=" + EVENT_DESTINATION,
-                    "spring.cloud.stream.function.definition=consumeTestEvent",
+                    "spring.cloud.function.definition=consumeTestEvent",
                     "backbase.event-emitter.custom-header-pairs[0].http=x-lob",
                     "backbase.event-emitter.custom-header-pairs[0].event=bbLineOfBusiness",
                     "backbase.event-emitter.custom-header-pairs[1].http=customerCategory",
diff --git a/src/test/resources/application-it.yml b/src/test/resources/application-it.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da1cb9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/application-it.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+spring:
+  main:
+    cloud-platform: NONE
+
+logging:
+  level:
+    root: INFO
+    com:
+      backbase: DEBUG