diff --git a/archiva-build-resources/pom.xml b/archiva-build-resources/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 206c7bb15..000000000
--- a/archiva-build-resources/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Copyright 2005-2006 The Apache Software Foundation.
-  ~
-  ~ Licensed 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.
-  -->
-
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
-    <artifactId>archiva-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>3-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  </parent>
-
-  <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
-  <artifactId>archiva-build-resources</artifactId>
-  <version>1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  <name>Archiva Build Resources</name>
-  <packaging>jar</packaging>
-
-</project>
diff --git a/archiva-build-resources/src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml b/archiva-build-resources/src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml
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index 538ba578d..000000000
--- a/archiva-build-resources/src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,282 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-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 module PUBLIC
-    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN"
-    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
-
-<!--
-  Checkstyle configuration that checks the maven coding conventions from:
--->
-
-<module name="Checker">
-
-    <!-- Checks that a package.html file exists for each package.     -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#PackageHtml -->
-    <!-- module name="PackageHtml"/ -->
-
-    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
-    <!-- module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/ -->
-
-    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
-    <!-- module name="Translation"/ -->
-
-    <module name="TreeWalker">
-
-        <property name="cacheFile" value="${checkstyle.cache.file}"/>
-
-        <property name="tabWidth" value="4"/>
-
-        <module name="LeftCurly">
-          <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <module name="RightCurly">
-          <property name="option" value="alone"/>
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <module name="LineLength">
-          <property name="max" value="120" />
-          <property name="ignorePattern" value="@version|@see|@todo|TODO"/>
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <module name="MemberName" >
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
-        <module name="JavadocMethod">
-          <property name="severity" value="info"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="JavadocType">
-          <property name="severity" value="info"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="JavadocVariable">
-          <property name="severity" value="info"/>
-        </module>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
-        <module name="ConstantName">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="LocalVariableName">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="MethodName">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="PackageName">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="ParameterName">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="StaticVariableName">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="TypeName">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for Headers                              -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html -->
-        <module name="RegexpHeader">
-          <property name="headerFile" value="${checkstyle.header.file}"/>
-          <property name="severity" value="error"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
-        <module name="AvoidStarImport">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="IllegalImport">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="RedundantImport">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="UnusedImports">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
-        <module name="FileLength">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="MethodLength">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="ParameterNumber">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
-        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad">
-          <property name="option" value="space"/>
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/ -->
-        <!-- module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/ -->
-        <module name="OperatorWrap">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="ParenPad">
-          <property name="option" value="space" />
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="TabCharacter">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="WhitespaceAfter">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="WhitespaceAround">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- module name="MethodParamPad"/ -->
-
-
-        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
-        <module name="ModifierOrder">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- <module name="RedundantModifier">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module> -->
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
-        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="EmptyBlock">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="NeedBraces">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
-        <!-- module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/ -->
-        <module name="DoubleCheckedLocking">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="EmptyStatement">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="EqualsHashCode">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="HiddenField">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="IllegalInstantiation">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="InnerAssignment">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="MagicNumber">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="RedundantThrows">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
-        <!-- module name="DesignForExtension"/ -->
-        <!-- module name="FinalClass"/ -->
-        <!-- module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/ -->
-        <module name="InterfaceIsType">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="VisibilityModifier">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-
-        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
-        <!-- module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/ -->
-        <!-- module name="FinalParameters"/ -->
-        <!-- Line with Trailing Spaces (disabled as it's to noisy)
-        <module name="GenericIllegalRegexp">
-            <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
-            <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
-        </module>
-          -->
-        <!-- Let todo plugin handle this.
-        <module name="TodoComment"/>
-          -->
-        <module name="UpperEll">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Old Habits Die Hard -->
-        <module name="GenericIllegalRegexp">
-          <property name="format" value="org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtil" />
-          <property name="message" value="[MRM-710] Use commons-lang and StringUtils instead." />
-          <property name="severity" value="error"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="GenericIllegalRegexp">
-          <property name="format" value="org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtil" />
-          <property name="message" value="[MRM-709] Use commons-io and FileUtils instead." />
-          <property name="severity" value="error"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="GenericIllegalRegexp">
-          <property name="format" value="org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil" />
-          <property name="message" value="[MRM-709] Use commons-io and IOUtils instead." />
-          <property name="severity" value="error"/>
-        </module>
-
-    </module>
-
-</module>
diff --git a/archiva-build-resources/src/main/resources/header.txt b/archiva-build-resources/src/main/resources/header.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 5059f0022..000000000
--- a/archiva-build-resources/src/main/resources/header.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-^package 
-^\s*$
-^/\*\s*$
-^ \* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation \(ASF\) under one\s*$
-^ \* or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file\s*$
-^ \* distributed with this work for additional information\s*$
-^ \* regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file\s*$
-^ \* to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 \(the\s*$
-^ \* "License"\)\; you may not use this file except in compliance\s*$
-^ \* with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* \s*http://www\.apache\.org/licenses/LICENSE-2\.0\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,\s*$
-^ \* software distributed under the License is distributed on an\s*$
-^ \* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY\s*$
-^ \* KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the\s*$
-^ \* specific language governing permissions and limitations\s*$
-^ \* under the License.\s*$
-^ \*/\s*$
-^\s*$