diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAction-validation.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAction-validation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3253d2e18..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAction-validation.xml
+++ /dev/null
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-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC "-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork Validator 1.0.2//EN"
-    "http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-validator-1.0.2.dtd">
-
-<validators>
-  <field name="indexPath">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the index directory.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-</validators>
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diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAppearance-validation.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAppearance-validation.xml
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index 64c011f1f..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAppearance-validation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC
-    "-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork Validator 1.0.2//EN"
-    "http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-validator-1.0.2.dtd">
-
-<validators>
-  <field name="organisationUrl">
-    <field-validator type="url">
-      <message key="appearance.organisation.url"/>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="organisationLogo">
-    <field-validator type="url">
-      <message key="appearance.organisation.logourl"/>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-</validators>
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diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAppearance.properties b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAppearance.properties
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index 2084ccd4a..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAppearance.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-
-appearance.organisation.url = You must define an organisation url."
-appearance.organisation.logourl = You must define an organisation logo url."
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diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAppearance_en.properties b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAppearance_en.properties
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index 661b0cba7..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureAppearance_en.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-
-
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureProxiedRepositoryAction-validation.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureProxiedRepositoryAction-validation.xml
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index 74f61f404..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureProxiedRepositoryAction-validation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC "-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork Validator 1.0.2//EN"
-    "http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-validator-1.0.2.dtd">
-
-<validators>
-  <field name="id">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the repository identifier.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-    <!--field-validator type="regex">
-      <param name="expression"><![CDATA[([A-Z][a-z][0-9])]]></param>
-      <message>Id must not have special characters.</message>
-    </field-validator-->
-  </field>
-  <field name="name">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the repository name.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-
-  <field name="url">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the repository URL.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="snapshotsInterval">
-    <field-validator type="regex">
-      <param name="expression"><![CDATA[([0-9])]]></param>
-      <message>The value must be numeric</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="releasesInterval">
-    <field-validator type="regex">
-      <param name="expression"><![CDATA[([0-9])]]></param>
-      <message>The value must be numeric</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-
-  <!-- TODO: is the validation correct? -->
-  <validator type="interval">
-    <message/>
-  </validator>
-
-  <field name="layout">
-    <field-validator type="required">
-      <message>Repository type is required.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-    <field-validator type="fieldexpression">
-      <param name="expression">layout in {"legacy", "default"}</param>
-      <message>Invalid repository type.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="snapshotsPolicy">
-    <field-validator type="fieldexpression">
-      <param name="expression">snapshotsPolicy in { "disabled", "daily", "hourly", "never", "interval" }</param>
-      <message>Invalid snapshot policy.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="releasesPolicy">
-    <field-validator type="fieldexpression">
-      <param name="expression">releasesPolicy in { "disabled", "daily", "hourly", "never", "interval" }</param>
-      <message>Invalid releases policy.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-
-  <field name="managedRepository">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>A managed repository must be selected.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-
-</validators>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureRepositoryAction-validation.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureRepositoryAction-validation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d38693c3..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureRepositoryAction-validation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC "-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork Validator 1.0.2//EN"
-    "http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-validator-1.0.2.dtd">
-
-<validators>
-  <field name="id">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the repository identifier.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="urlName">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the url name.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="name">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the repository name.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="directory">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the repository directory.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="layout">
-    <field-validator type="fieldexpression">
-      <param name="expression">layout in {"legacy", "default"}</param>
-      <message>Invalid repository type.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-</validators>
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureSyncedRepositoryAction-addSelectedSyncedRepository-validation.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureSyncedRepositoryAction-addSelectedSyncedRepository-validation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index d31c27c23..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureSyncedRepositoryAction-addSelectedSyncedRepository-validation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC "-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork Validator 1.0.2//EN"
-    "http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-validator-1.0.2.dtd">
-
-<validators>
-  <field name="id">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the repository identifier.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="name">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the repository name.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="layout">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>Select repository type.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-    <field-validator type="fieldexpression">
-      <param name="expression">layout in {"legacy", "default"}</param>
-      <message>Invalid repository type.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="managedRepository">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>A managed repository must be selected.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-
-  <validator type="syncedrepo">
-    <message/>
-  </validator>
-
-</validators>
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diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureSyncedRepositoryAction-validation.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureSyncedRepositoryAction-validation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 483ebdddf..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/ConfigureSyncedRepositoryAction-validation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC "-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork Validator 1.0.2//EN"
-    "http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-validator-1.0.2.dtd">
-
-<validators>
-  <field name="method">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <message>You must enter the synchronization method.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-    <field-validator type="fieldexpression">
-      <param name="expression">method in { "rsync", "cvs", "svn", "file" }</param>
-      <message>Invalid method.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-</validators>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/connectors/proxy/ConfigureProxyConnector-saveProxyConnector-validation.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/connectors/proxy/ConfigureProxyConnector-saveProxyConnector-validation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c6e25ce3..000000000
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/archiva/web/action/admin/connectors/proxy/ConfigureProxyConnector-saveProxyConnector-validation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
-  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  ~ under the License.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC "-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork Validator 1.0.2//EN"
-    "http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-validator-1.0.2.dtd">
-
-<validators>
-  <field name="connector.sourceRepoId">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <param name="trim">true</param>
-      <message>You must select a source repository Id.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-  <field name="connector.targetRepoId">
-    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
-      <param name="trim">true</param>
-      <message>You must select a target repository Id.</message>
-    </field-validator>
-  </field>
-</validators>
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