diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-api/pom.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-api/pom.xml
index 5a62d7ea6..cff05468d 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-api/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-api/pom.xml
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@
   <properties>
     <enunciate.docsDir>${project.build.outputDirectory}/rest-docs-archiva-rest-api</enunciate.docsDir>
     <site.staging.base>${project.parent.parent.parent.basedir}</site.staging.base>
-    <swagger-maven-plugin-version>2.1.2</swagger-maven-plugin-version>
-    <io.swagger.version>2.1.2</io.swagger.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
@@ -79,46 +77,6 @@
       <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
       <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
-      <artifactId>swagger-core</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-      <version>${io.swagger.version}</version>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
-          <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
-      <artifactId>swagger-jaxrs2</artifactId>
-      <version>${io.swagger.version}</version>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
-          <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
-      <artifactId>swagger-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>${io.swagger.version}</version>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
-          <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-
-
 
   </dependencies>
 
@@ -135,95 +93,6 @@
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>bind-sources</id>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
-        <artifactId>swagger-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>${swagger-maven-plugin-version}</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <outputFileName>openapi</outputFileName>
-          <outputPath>${project.build.directory}/generated</outputPath>
-          <outputFormat>JSONANDYAML</outputFormat>
-          <resourcePackages>
-            <package>org.apache.archiva.rest.api</package>
-          </resourcePackages>
-          <prettyPrint>TRUE</prettyPrint>
-          <configurationFilePath>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/openapi-configuration.yaml</configurationFilePath>
-        </configuration>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <phase>compile</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>resolve</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>io.swagger.codegen.v3</groupId>
-        <artifactId>swagger-codegen-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.0.20</version>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <phase>compile</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>generate</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <inputSpec>${project.build.directory}/generated/openapi.yaml</inputSpec>
-              <language>html</language>
-              <output>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources</output>
-              <ignoreFileOverride>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/openapi-codegen-ignore</ignoreFileOverride>
-              <templateDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/templates</templateDirectory>
-              <supportingFilesToGenerate>index.html,index2.html</supportingFilesToGenerate>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.1.0</version>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>copy-resources</id>
-            <phase>site</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>copy-resources</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/site/openapi/</outputDirectory>
-              <resources>
-                <resource>
-                  <directory>${project.build.directory}/generated</directory>         <!-- source directory -->
-                  <filtering>false</filtering>
-                  <include>openapi.json</include>
-                  <include>openapi.yaml</include>
-                </resource>
-                <resource>
-                  <directory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/</directory>
-                  <filtering>false</filtering>
-                  <include>**/*</include>
-                  <exclude>.swagger-codegen/**</exclude>
-                  <exclude>.swagger-codegen-ignore</exclude>
-                </resource>
-              </resources>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/rest/api/model/ActionStatus.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/rest/api/model/ActionStatus.java
index 5620f4f35..b4534b9a7 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/rest/api/model/ActionStatus.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-api/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/rest/api/model/ActionStatus.java
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ package org.apache.archiva.rest.api.model;
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import javax.swing.*;
 import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
 
 /**
@@ -32,6 +31,9 @@ public class ActionStatus
 
     public static final ActionStatus SUCCESS = new ActionStatus( true );
     public static final ActionStatus FAIL = new ActionStatus( false );
+    public static ActionStatus FROM(boolean status) {
+        return status ? SUCCESS : FAIL;
+    }
 
     public ActionStatus() {
 
@@ -51,5 +53,9 @@ public class ActionStatus
         this.success = success;
     }
 
-
+    @Override
+    public String toString( )
+    {
+        return Boolean.toString( success );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/pom.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/pom.xml
index d8fed9482..6e9f62600 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/pom.xml
@@ -439,6 +439,12 @@
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
+      <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
 
     <!-- Needed for JDK >= 9 -->
     <dependency>
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/rest/services/interceptors/JacksonJsonConfigurator.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/rest/services/interceptors/JacksonJsonConfigurator.java
index 4137eb74f..aaca91779 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/rest/services/interceptors/JacksonJsonConfigurator.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/rest/services/interceptors/JacksonJsonConfigurator.java
@@ -21,11 +21,13 @@ package org.apache.archiva.rest.services.interceptors;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
 
 import javax.inject.Inject;
+import javax.inject.Named;
 
 /**
  * class to setup Jackson Json configuration
@@ -39,9 +41,12 @@ public class JacksonJsonConfigurator
     private Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger( getClass() );
 
     @Inject
-    public JacksonJsonConfigurator( ObjectMapper objectMapper )
+    public JacksonJsonConfigurator( @Named( "redbackJacksonJsonMapper" ) ObjectMapper objectMapper,
+                                    @Named( "redbackJacksonXMLMapper" ) XmlMapper xmlMapper )
     {
+
         log.info( "configure jackson ObjectMapper" );
-        objectMapper.configure( DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false );
+        objectMapper.disable( DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES);
+        xmlMapper.disable( DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES );
     }
 }
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring-context.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring-context.xml
index ede2fe6c0..a7ace5160 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring-context.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-rest/archiva-rest-services/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring-context.xml
@@ -39,17 +39,23 @@
   <context:component-scan
       base-package="org.apache.archiva.rest.services,org.apache.archiva.redback.rest.services"/>
 
-
-  <bean id="eventSender" class="org.apache.cxf.ext.logging.slf4j.Slf4jVerboseEventSender">
-    <property name="loggingLevel" value="DEBUG" />
+  <bean id="jsonProvider" class="com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.json.JacksonJaxbJsonProvider">
+    <property name="mapper" ref="redbackJacksonJsonMapper"/>
   </bean>
 
+  <bean id="xmlProvider" class="com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.xml.JacksonJaxbXMLProvider">
+    <property name="mapper" ref="redbackJacksonXMLMapper"/>
+  </bean>
+
+  <bean id="redbackJacksonJsonMapper" class="com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper" />
+  <bean id="redbackJacksonXMLMapper" class="com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper" />
+
 
   <jaxrs:server id="archivaServices" address="/archivaServices" >
 
     <jaxrs:providers>
-      <bean class="com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.json.JacksonJaxbJsonProvider"/>
-      <bean class="com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.xml.JacksonJaxbXMLProvider"/>
+      <ref bean="jsonProvider" />
+      <ref bean="xmlProvider" />
       <ref bean="authenticationInterceptor#rest"/>
       <ref bean="permissionInterceptor#rest"/>
       <ref bean="requestValidationInterceptor#rest" />
@@ -78,12 +84,6 @@
       <ref bean="redbackRuntimeConfigurationService#rest"/>
     </jaxrs:serviceBeans>
 
-    <jaxrs:features>
-      <bean class="org.apache.cxf.ext.logging.LoggingFeature">
-        <property name="sender" ref="eventSender"/>
-      </bean>
-    </jaxrs:features>
-
 
   </jaxrs:server>
 
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-web-common/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/remotedownload/DownloadArtifactsTest.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-web-common/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/remotedownload/DownloadArtifactsTest.java
index acd74d0e3..436ea5d96 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-web-common/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/remotedownload/DownloadArtifactsTest.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-web-common/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/remotedownload/DownloadArtifactsTest.java
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ public class DownloadArtifactsTest
         RoleManagementService roleManagementService = getRoleManagementService( authorizationHeader );
 
         if ( !roleManagementService.templatedRoleExists( ArchivaRoleConstants.TEMPLATE_REPOSITORY_OBSERVER,
-                                                         "internal" ) )
+                                                         "internal" ).isExists() )
         {
             roleManagementService.createTemplatedRole( ArchivaRoleConstants.TEMPLATE_REPOSITORY_OBSERVER, "internal" );
         }
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-web-common/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/remotedownload/DownloadSnapshotTest.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-web-common/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/remotedownload/DownloadSnapshotTest.java
index 05a29966c..07c2a7101 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-web-common/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/remotedownload/DownloadSnapshotTest.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-web-common/src/test/java/org/apache/archiva/remotedownload/DownloadSnapshotTest.java
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ public class DownloadSnapshotTest
         RoleManagementService roleManagementService = getRoleManagementService( authorizationHeader );
 
         if ( !roleManagementService.templatedRoleExists( ArchivaRoleConstants.TEMPLATE_REPOSITORY_OBSERVER,
-                                                         id ) )
+                                                         id ).isExists() )
         {
             roleManagementService.createTemplatedRole( ArchivaRoleConstants.TEMPLATE_REPOSITORY_OBSERVER, id );
         }
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ca0cbfdf4..1188a71d5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -165,6 +165,12 @@
         <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
         <version>${javax.jaxrs.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
+        <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
+        <version>${javax.validation.version}</version>
+        <scope>provided</scope>
+      </dependency>
 
 
       <dependency>
@@ -1632,6 +1638,43 @@
         <version>${cxf.version}</version>
       </dependency>
 
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
+        <artifactId>swagger-core</artifactId>
+        <scope>compile</scope>
+        <version>${io.swagger.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
+        <artifactId>swagger-jaxrs2</artifactId>
+        <version>${io.swagger.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
+        <artifactId>swagger-annotations</artifactId>
+        <version>${io.swagger.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
+      </dependency>
+
+
+
 
     </dependencies>
   </dependencyManagement>