diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/pom.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/pom.xml
index d08e854df..30d6e8d73 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/pom.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@
       <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
+      <artifactId>archiva-common</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
+      <artifactId>archiva-storage-api</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
       <artifactId>archiva-configuration</artifactId>
@@ -58,11 +66,28 @@
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.archiva.maven</groupId>
-      <artifactId>archiva-maven-proxy</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>archiva-maven-common</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
-      <artifactId>archiva-repository-admin-api</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>archiva-repository-api</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
+      <artifactId>archiva-proxy-api</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.archiva.components</groupId>
+      <artifactId>archiva-components-spring-taskqueue</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.annotation</groupId>
+      <artifactId>javax.annotation-api</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
+      <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
@@ -72,51 +97,44 @@
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
-      <artifactId>wagon-http</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>wagon-http-shared</artifactId>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
-      <artifactId>wagon-http-lightweight</artifactId>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
+      <artifactId>wagon-provider-api</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+
+
     <!-- Test dependencies -->
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
-      <artifactId>javax.persistence-api</artifactId>
+      <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
+      <artifactId>repository-statistics</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.archiva.redback</groupId>
-      <artifactId>redback-keys-jpa</artifactId>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
+      <artifactId>wagon-http</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.archiva.redback</groupId>
-      <artifactId>redback-keys-cached</artifactId>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
+      <artifactId>wagon-http-lightweight</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
-      <artifactId>javax.transaction-api</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.archiva.redback</groupId>
-      <artifactId>redback-common-jpa</artifactId>
-      <version>${redback.version}</version>
+      <groupId>org.apache.archiva.maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>archiva-maven-proxy</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-      <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
-      <version>${spring.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
-      <artifactId>archiva-repository-admin-default</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -135,6 +153,12 @@
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jetty-servlet</artifactId>
+      <version>${jetty.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
@@ -152,19 +176,6 @@
       <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
-      <artifactId>archiva-mock</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.archiva.redback</groupId>
-      <artifactId>redback-rbac-cached</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-      <version>${redback.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
-
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
@@ -173,21 +184,11 @@
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.archiva.redback</groupId>
-      <artifactId>redback-common-test-resources</artifactId>
+      <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
+      <artifactId>archiva-mock</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
-      <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/scheduler/indexing/maven/DefaultDownloadRemoteIndexScheduler.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/scheduler/indexing/maven/DefaultDownloadRemoteIndexScheduler.java
index 7d3fe95c8..452ea65fd 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/scheduler/indexing/maven/DefaultDownloadRemoteIndexScheduler.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/scheduler/indexing/maven/DefaultDownloadRemoteIndexScheduler.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import org.apache.archiva.proxy.ProxyRegistry;
 import org.apache.archiva.proxy.model.NetworkProxy;
 import org.apache.archiva.scheduler.indexing.DownloadRemoteIndexException;
 import org.apache.archiva.scheduler.indexing.DownloadRemoteIndexScheduler;
-import org.apache.archiva.admin.model.RepositoryAdminException;
 import org.apache.archiva.configuration.ArchivaConfiguration;
 import org.apache.archiva.configuration.ConfigurationEvent;
 import org.apache.archiva.configuration.ConfigurationListener;
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/scheduler/indexing/maven/DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/scheduler/indexing/maven/DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest.java
index 01921e45d..ae7189184 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/scheduler/indexing/maven/DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/scheduler/indexing/maven/DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest.java
@@ -18,10 +18,19 @@ package org.apache.archiva.scheduler.indexing.maven;
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import org.apache.archiva.admin.model.beans.RemoteRepository;
-import org.apache.archiva.admin.model.remote.RemoteRepositoryAdmin;
 import org.apache.archiva.common.utils.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.archiva.indexer.ArchivaIndexManager;
+import org.apache.archiva.indexer.IndexCreationFailedException;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.EditableRemoteRepository;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.EditableRepository;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.RemoteRepository;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.RepositoryException;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.RepositoryProvider;
 import org.apache.archiva.repository.RepositoryRegistry;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.RepositoryType;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.UnsupportedURIException;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.features.IndexCreationFeature;
+import org.apache.archiva.repository.features.RemoteIndexFeature;
 import org.apache.archiva.test.utils.ArchivaSpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
 import org.apache.maven.index.FlatSearchRequest;
 import org.apache.maven.index.FlatSearchResponse;
@@ -49,15 +58,14 @@ import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
 
 import javax.inject.Inject;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
-import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
-
 /**
  * @author Olivier Lamy
  */
@@ -73,9 +81,6 @@ public class DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest
 
     private Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger( getClass() );
 
-    @Inject
-    RemoteRepositoryAdmin remoteRepositoryAdmin;
-
     @Inject
     DefaultDownloadRemoteIndexScheduler downloadRemoteIndexScheduler;
 
@@ -85,6 +90,9 @@ public class DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest
     @Inject
     RepositoryRegistry repositoryRegistry;
 
+    @Inject
+    RepositoryProvider repositoryProvider;
+
     @Before
     public void initialize()
         throws Exception
@@ -94,7 +102,7 @@ public class DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest
             Files.delete(cfgFile);
         }
         try {
-            remoteRepositoryAdmin.deleteRemoteRepository("test-repo-re", null);
+            repositoryRegistry.removeRepository( "test-repo-re" );
         } catch (Exception e) {
             // Ignore
         }
@@ -136,9 +144,12 @@ public class DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest
     public void downloadAndMergeRemoteIndexInEmptyIndex()
         throws Exception
     {
-        RemoteRepository remoteRepository = getRemoteRepository();
+        Path repoDirectory = Paths.get( FileUtils.getBasedir( ), "target/repo-" + Long.toString( System.currentTimeMillis( ) ) );
 
-        remoteRepositoryAdmin.addRemoteRepository( remoteRepository, null );
+        RemoteRepository remoteRepository = getRemoteRepository(repoDirectory);
+
+        repositoryRegistry.putRepository( remoteRepository);
+        repositoryRegistry.reload();
 
         downloadRemoteIndexScheduler.startup();
 
@@ -147,17 +158,17 @@ public class DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest
         ( (ThreadPoolTaskScheduler) downloadRemoteIndexScheduler.getTaskScheduler() ).getScheduledExecutor().awaitTermination(
             10, TimeUnit.SECONDS );
 
-        remoteRepositoryAdmin.deleteRemoteRepository( "test-repo-re", null );
+        repositoryRegistry.removeRepository( "test-repo-re" );
 
         // search
         BooleanQuery.Builder iQuery = new BooleanQuery.Builder();
         iQuery.add( indexer.constructQuery( MAVEN.GROUP_ID, new StringSearchExpression( "commons-logging" ) ),
                     BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD );
 
-        remoteRepositoryAdmin.addRemoteRepository(remoteRepository,  null);
+        remoteRepository = getRemoteRepository( repoDirectory );
         FlatSearchRequest rq = new FlatSearchRequest( iQuery.build() );
         rq.setContexts(
-            Arrays.asList( repositoryRegistry.getRemoteRepository(remoteRepository.getId()).getIndexingContext().getBaseContext(IndexingContext.class) ) );
+            Arrays.asList( remoteRepository.getIndexingContext().getBaseContext(IndexingContext.class) ) );
 
         FlatSearchResponse response = indexer.searchFlat(rq);
 
@@ -166,22 +177,38 @@ public class DownloadRemoteIndexTaskTest
     }
 
 
-    protected RemoteRepository getRemoteRepository() throws IOException
+    protected RemoteRepository getRemoteRepository(Path repoDirectory) throws IOException, URISyntaxException, UnsupportedURIException, RepositoryException
     {
-        RemoteRepository remoteRepository = new RemoteRepository( Locale.getDefault());
-        Path indexDirectory =
-            Paths.get( FileUtils.getBasedir(), "target/index/test-" + Long.toString( System.currentTimeMillis() ) );
+
+        EditableRemoteRepository remoteRepository = repositoryProvider.createRemoteInstance( "test-repo-re", "foo" );
+        Path indexDirectory = repoDirectory.resolve( "index" );
         Files.createDirectories( indexDirectory );
-        indexDirectory.toFile().deleteOnExit();
-
-        remoteRepository.setName( "foo" );
-        remoteRepository.setIndexDirectory( indexDirectory.toAbsolutePath().toString() );
-        remoteRepository.setDownloadRemoteIndex( true );
-        remoteRepository.setId( "test-repo-re" );
-        remoteRepository.setUrl( "http://localhost:" + port );
-        remoteRepository.setRemoteIndexUrl( "http://localhost:" + port + "/index-updates/" );
+        remoteRepository.setLocation( new URI( "http://localhost:" + port ) );
+        repoDirectory.toFile().deleteOnExit();
+        createIndexingContext( remoteRepository );
 
+        RemoteIndexFeature rif = remoteRepository.getFeature( RemoteIndexFeature.class ).get();
+        rif.setDownloadRemoteIndex( true );
+        rif.setIndexUri( new URI("http://localhost:" + port + "/index-updates/" ) );
+        IndexCreationFeature icf = remoteRepository.getFeature( IndexCreationFeature.class ).get( );
+        icf.setLocalIndexPath( remoteRepository.getAsset(  "index" ) );
         return remoteRepository;
     }
 
+    private void createIndexingContext( EditableRepository editableRepo) throws RepositoryException
+    {
+        if (editableRepo.supportsFeature(IndexCreationFeature.class)) {
+            ArchivaIndexManager idxManager = getIndexManager(editableRepo.getType());
+            try {
+                editableRepo.setIndexingContext(idxManager.createContext(editableRepo));
+                idxManager.updateLocalIndexPath(editableRepo);
+            } catch ( IndexCreationFailedException e) {
+                throw new RepositoryException("Could not create index for repository " + editableRepo.getId() + ": " + e.getMessage(), e);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public ArchivaIndexManager getIndexManager( RepositoryType type ) {
+        return repositoryRegistry.getIndexManager( type );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/test/resources/spring-context.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/test/resources/spring-context.xml
index 2f4fedacd..1e5ed5806 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/test/resources/spring-context.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-maven/archiva-maven-scheduler/src/test/resources/spring-context.xml
@@ -19,13 +19,12 @@
   ~ under the License.
   -->
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
-       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
-           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd"
+           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd"
        default-lazy-init="true">
 
-  <context:component-scan base-package="org.apache.archiva.repository.content.maven2,org.apache.archiva.indexer.maven" />
+  <context:component-scan base-package="org.apache.archiva.indexer.maven" />
 
   <bean name="scheduler" class="org.apache.archiva.components.scheduler.DefaultScheduler">
     <property name="properties">
@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@
     </property>
   </bean>
 
-
   <!-- wire up more basic configuration so it doesn't overwrite any config files -->
   <bean name="archivaConfiguration#default"  class="org.apache.archiva.configuration.DefaultArchivaConfiguration">
     <property name="registry" ref="registry#default"/>
@@ -62,38 +60,7 @@
     </property>
   </bean>
 
-  <alias name="userConfiguration#redback" alias="userConfiguration#default"/>
 
-  <!-- ***
-     JPA settings
-     *** -->
-  <bean name="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
-    <property name="jpaVendorAdapter" >
-      <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.OpenJpaVendorAdapter" />
-    </property>
-    <property name="persistenceXmlLocation" value="classpath:META-INF/persistence-hsqldb.xml" />
-    <property name="jpaPropertyMap">
-      <map>
-        <entry key="openjpa.ConnectionURL" value="jdbc:hsqldb:mem:redback_database" />
-        <entry key="openjpa.ConnectionDriverName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" />
-        <entry key="openjpa.ConnectionUserName" value="sa" />
-        <entry key="openjpa.ConnectionPassword" value="" />
-        <entry key="openjpa.Log" value="${openjpa.Log:DefaultLevel=INFO,Runtime=ERROR,Tool=ERROR,SQL=ERROR,Schema=ERROR,MetaData=ERROR}" />
-        <entry key="openjpa.jdbc.SynchronizeMappings" value="buildSchema(ForeignKeys=true)" />
-        <entry key="openjpa.jdbc.MappingDefaults"
-               value="ForeignKeyDeleteAction=restrict,JoinForeignKeyDeleteAction=restrict"/>
-      </map>
-    </property>
 
-  </bean>
-
-  <bean name="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager" >
-    <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
-  </bean>
-
-  <tx:annotation-driven />
-  <!-- ***
-     End of JPA settings
-     *** -->
 
 </beans>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/status-dep.txt b/status-dep.txt
index 8dfbe2794..a8c1d435b 100644
--- a/status-dep.txt
+++ b/status-dep.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ archiva-modules
     archiva-maven-proxy
     archiva-maven-indexer
     archiva-maven-repository
+    archiva-maven-scheduler