diff --git a/kafka/hbase-kafka-proxy/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/kafka/KafkaBridgeConnection.java b/kafka/hbase-kafka-proxy/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/kafka/KafkaBridgeConnection.java
index a0d3dc24..68a88aff 100644
--- a/kafka/hbase-kafka-proxy/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/kafka/KafkaBridgeConnection.java
+++ b/kafka/hbase-kafka-proxy/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/kafka/KafkaBridgeConnection.java
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.Producer;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig;
 import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;
-import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 
 /**
  * a alternative implementation of a connection object that forwards the mutations to a kafka queue
@@ -76,9 +75,7 @@ public KafkaBridgeConnection(Configuration conf,
    * @param conf hbase configuration
    * @param routingRules a set of routing rules
    * @param producer a kafka producer
-   * @throws IOException on error
    */
-  @VisibleForTesting
   public KafkaBridgeConnection(Configuration conf, TopicRoutingRules routingRules,
                                Producer<byte[],byte[]> producer) {
     this.conf = conf;
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d6061ead..e00ffb70 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@
     <checkstyle.version>8.18</checkstyle.version>
     <maven.checkstyle.version>3.1.0</maven.checkstyle.version>
     <surefire.version>3.0.0-M4</surefire.version>
+    <enforcer.version>3.0.0-M3</enforcer.version>
+    <extra.enforcer.version>1.2</extra.enforcer.version>
+    <restrict-imports.enforcer.version>0.14.0</restrict-imports.enforcer.version>
     <!--Internally we use a different version of protobuf. See hbase-protocol-shaded-->
     <external.protobuf.version>2.5.0</external.protobuf.version>
     <protobuf.plugin.version>0.5.0</protobuf.plugin.version>
@@ -437,12 +440,17 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.0.0-M3</version>
+        <version>${enforcer.version}</version>
         <dependencies>
           <dependency>
             <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
             <artifactId>extra-enforcer-rules</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2</version>
+            <version>${extra.enforcer.version}</version>
+          </dependency>
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>de.skuzzle.enforcer</groupId>
+            <artifactId>restrict-imports-enforcer-rule</artifactId>
+            <version>${restrict-imports.enforcer.version}</version>
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <!-- version set by parent -->
@@ -513,6 +521,92 @@
               </rules>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <id>banned-illegal-imports</id>
+            <phase>process-sources</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>enforce</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <rules>
+                <restrictImports implementation="de.skuzzle.enforcer.restrictimports.rule.RestrictImports">
+                  <includeTestCode>true</includeTestCode>
+                  <commentLineBufferSize>512</commentLineBufferSize>
+                  <reason>Use SLF4j for logging</reason>
+                  <bannedImports>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.commons.logging.Log</bannedImport>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory</bannedImport>
+                  </bannedImports>
+                </restrictImports>
+                <restrictImports implementation="de.skuzzle.enforcer.restrictimports.rule.RestrictImports">
+                  <includeTestCode>true</includeTestCode>
+                  <commentLineBufferSize>512</commentLineBufferSize>
+                  <reason>Use shaded version in hbase-thirdparty</reason>
+                  <bannedImports>
+                    <bannedImport>com.google.common.**</bannedImport>
+                    <bannedImport>io.netty.**</bannedImport>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.commons.cli.**</bannedImport>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.commons.collections.**</bannedImport>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.commons.collections4.**</bannedImport>
+                  </bannedImports>
+                </restrictImports>
+                <restrictImports implementation="de.skuzzle.enforcer.restrictimports.rule.RestrictImports">
+                  <includeTestCode>true</includeTestCode>
+                  <commentLineBufferSize>512</commentLineBufferSize>
+                  <reason>Do not use shaded classes from other dependencies</reason>
+                  <bannedImports>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.curator.shaded.**</bannedImport>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.htrace.shaded.**</bannedImport>
+                  </bannedImports>
+                </restrictImports>
+                <restrictImports implementation="de.skuzzle.enforcer.restrictimports.rule.RestrictImports">
+                  <includeTestCode>true</includeTestCode>
+                  <commentLineBufferSize>512</commentLineBufferSize>
+                  <reason>Use shaded gson in hbase-thirdparty</reason>
+                  <bannedImports>
+                    <bannedImport>org.codehaus.jackson.**</bannedImport>
+                  </bannedImports>
+                </restrictImports>
+                <restrictImports implementation="de.skuzzle.enforcer.restrictimports.rule.RestrictImports">
+                  <includeTestCode>true</includeTestCode>
+                  <commentLineBufferSize>512</commentLineBufferSize>
+                  <reason>Use commons lang 3</reason>
+                  <bannedImports>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.commons.lang.**</bannedImport>
+                  </bannedImports>
+                </restrictImports>
+                <restrictImports implementation="de.skuzzle.enforcer.restrictimports.rule.RestrictImports">
+                  <includeTestCode>true</includeTestCode>
+                  <commentLineBufferSize>512</commentLineBufferSize>
+                  <reason>Use yetus IA and IS annotations</reason>
+                  <bannedImports>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.hadoop.classificatio.**</bannedImport>
+                  </bannedImports>
+                </restrictImports>
+                <restrictImports implementation="de.skuzzle.enforcer.restrictimports.rule.RestrictImports">
+                  <includeTestCode>true</includeTestCode>
+                  <commentLineBufferSize>512</commentLineBufferSize>
+                  <reason>Do not use htrace v3</reason>
+                  <bannedImports>
+                    <bannedImport>org.htrace.**</bannedImport>
+                  </bannedImports>
+                </restrictImports>
+                <restrictImports implementation="de.skuzzle.enforcer.restrictimports.rule.RestrictImports">
+                  <includeTestCode>true</includeTestCode>
+                  <commentLineBufferSize>512</commentLineBufferSize>
+                  <reason>
+                    You should never use this style of annotations(i.e, 'this is for test only')
+                    in IA.Public or IA.LimitedPrivate classes. Use IA.Private to tell users this is
+                    not for public use.
+                    For IA.Private classes, use RestrictedApi annotation in error prone instead.
+                  </reason>
+                  <bannedImports>
+                    <bannedImport>org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting</bannedImport>
+                  </bannedImports>
+                </restrictImports>
+              </rules>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
       <!-- See https://maven.apache.org/maven-ci-friendly.html-->