diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-indexer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/indexer/merger/MergedRemoteIndexesTaskJob.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-indexer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/indexer/merger/MergedRemoteIndexesTask.java
similarity index 84%
rename from archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-indexer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/indexer/merger/MergedRemoteIndexesTaskJob.java
rename to archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-indexer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/indexer/merger/MergedRemoteIndexesTask.java
index 5fe748871..2e19eb640 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-indexer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/indexer/merger/MergedRemoteIndexesTaskJob.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-indexer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/indexer/merger/MergedRemoteIndexesTask.java
@@ -32,20 +32,33 @@ import java.io.File;
  * @author Olivier Lamy
  * @since 2.0.0
  */
-public class MergedRemoteIndexesTaskJob
-    extends AbstractJob
+public class MergedRemoteIndexesTask
+    implements Runnable
 {
 
     private Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger( getClass() );
 
-    @Override
-    public void execute( JobExecutionContext context )
-        throws JobExecutionException
-    {
+    private MergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest mergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest;
 
+    public MergedRemoteIndexesTask( MergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest mergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest )
+    {
+        this.mergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest = mergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest;
     }
 
-    public MergedRemoteIndexesTaskResult execute( MergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest mergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest )
+    @Override
+    public void run()
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            this.execute();
+        }
+        catch ( IndexMergerException e )
+        {
+            logger.error( e.getMessage(), e );
+        }
+    }
+
+    public MergedRemoteIndexesTaskResult execute( )
         throws IndexMergerException
     {
         IndexMerger indexMerger = mergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest.indexMerger;
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webdav/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/webdav/ArchivaDavResourceFactory.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webdav/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/webdav/ArchivaDavResourceFactory.java
index b6af5e3f9..cbe1172ba 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webdav/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/webdav/ArchivaDavResourceFactory.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webdav/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/webdav/ArchivaDavResourceFactory.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import org.apache.archiva.configuration.RepositoryGroupConfiguration;
 import org.apache.archiva.indexer.merger.IndexMerger;
 import org.apache.archiva.indexer.merger.IndexMergerException;
 import org.apache.archiva.indexer.merger.IndexMergerRequest;
-import org.apache.archiva.indexer.merger.MergedRemoteIndexesTaskJob;
+import org.apache.archiva.indexer.merger.MergedRemoteIndexesTask;
 import org.apache.archiva.indexer.merger.TemporaryGroupIndex;
 import org.apache.archiva.indexer.search.RepositorySearch;
 import org.apache.archiva.maven2.metadata.MavenMetadataReader;
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ import org.apache.archiva.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadataWriter;
 import org.apache.archiva.scheduler.repository.model.RepositoryArchivaTaskScheduler;
 import org.apache.archiva.security.ServletAuthenticator;
 import org.apache.archiva.webdav.util.MimeTypes;
-import org.apache.archiva.webdav.util.RepositoryPathUtil;
 import org.apache.archiva.webdav.util.TemporaryGroupIndexSessionCleaner;
 import org.apache.archiva.webdav.util.WebdavMethodUtil;
 import org.apache.archiva.xml.XMLException;
@@ -1317,12 +1316,14 @@ public class ArchivaDavResourceFactory
                                     repositoryGroupConfiguration.getMergedIndexTtl() ).mergedIndexDirectory(
                 tempRepoFile );
 
-            MergedRemoteIndexesTaskJob job = new MergedRemoteIndexesTaskJob();
 
-            MergedRemoteIndexesTaskJob.MergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest taskRequest =
-                new MergedRemoteIndexesTaskJob.MergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest(indexMergerRequest, indexMerger);
 
-            IndexingContext indexingContext = job.execute( taskRequest ).getIndexingContext();
+            MergedRemoteIndexesTask.MergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest taskRequest =
+                new MergedRemoteIndexesTask.MergedRemoteIndexesTaskRequest(indexMergerRequest, indexMerger);
+
+            MergedRemoteIndexesTask job = new MergedRemoteIndexesTask( taskRequest );
+
+            IndexingContext indexingContext = job.execute().getIndexingContext();
 
             File mergedRepoDir = indexingContext.getIndexDirectoryFile();
             TemporaryGroupIndex temporaryGroupIndex =