diff --git a/maven-mboot/src/main/ArtifactDownloader.java b/maven-mboot/src/main/ArtifactDownloader.java
index e83bc46a95..e2e495b281 100644
--- a/maven-mboot/src/main/ArtifactDownloader.java
+++ b/maven-mboot/src/main/ArtifactDownloader.java
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -31,10 +28,8 @@ public class ArtifactDownloader
 
     private String proxyPassword;
     
-    public ArtifactDownloader() throws Exception
+    public ArtifactDownloader( Properties properties ) throws Exception
     {
-        Properties properties = loadProperties( new File( System.getProperty( "user.home" ), "build.properties" ) );
-
         setRemoteRepo( properties.getProperty( "maven.repo.remote" ) );
 
         String mavenRepoLocalProperty = properties.getProperty( "maven.repo.local" );
@@ -68,14 +63,6 @@ public class ArtifactDownloader
         System.out.println( "Using the following for your maven.repo.local: " + mavenRepoLocal );
     }
     
-    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
-    {
-        ArtifactDownloader dl =new ArtifactDownloader();
-        List tmp = new ArrayList();
-        tmp.add(args[0]);
-        dl.downloadDependencies(tmp);
-    }
-    
     private void writeFile( String name, String contents )
         throws Exception
     {
@@ -268,51 +255,4 @@ public class ArtifactDownloader
     {
         System.out.println( message );
     }
-    
-    private Properties loadProperties( File file )
-    {
-        try
-        {
-            return loadProperties( new FileInputStream( file ) );
-        }
-        catch ( Exception e )
-        {
-            // ignore
-        }
-
-        return new Properties();
-    }
-
-    private static Properties loadProperties( InputStream is )
-    {
-        Properties properties = new Properties();
-
-        try
-        {
-            if ( is != null )
-            {
-                properties.load( is );
-            }
-        }
-        catch ( IOException e )
-        {
-            // ignore
-        }
-        finally
-        {
-            try
-            {
-                if ( is != null )
-                {
-                    is.close();
-                }
-            }
-            catch ( IOException e )
-            {
-                // ignore
-            }
-        }
-
-        return properties;
-    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/maven-mboot/src/main/Bootstrapper.java b/maven-mboot/src/main/Bootstrapper.java
index f311df5eec..6b80009a50 100644
--- a/maven-mboot/src/main/Bootstrapper.java
+++ b/maven-mboot/src/main/Bootstrapper.java
@@ -8,11 +8,14 @@ import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Properties;
 
 public class Bootstrapper
 {
@@ -26,6 +29,8 @@ public class Bootstrapper
 
     private List resources;
 
+    private Properties properties;
+
     public static void main( String[] args )
         throws Exception
     {
@@ -37,7 +42,9 @@ public class Bootstrapper
     public void execute( String[] args )
         throws Exception
     {
-        downloader = new ArtifactDownloader();
+        properties = loadProperties( new File( System.getProperty( "user.home" ), "build.properties" ) );
+
+        downloader = new ArtifactDownloader( properties );
 
         bootstrapPomParser = new BootstrapPomParser();
 
@@ -231,6 +238,54 @@ public class Bootstrapper
         return d.getArtifactDirectory() + pathSeparator + "jars" + pathSeparator + d.getArtifact();
     }
 
+    private Properties loadProperties( File file )
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            return loadProperties( new FileInputStream( file ) );
+        }
+        catch ( Exception e )
+        {
+            // ignore
+        }
+
+        return new Properties();
+    }
+
+    private static Properties loadProperties( InputStream is )
+    {
+        Properties properties = new Properties();
+
+        try
+        {
+            if ( is != null )
+            {
+                properties.load( is );
+            }
+        }
+        catch ( IOException e )
+        {
+            // ignore
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                if ( is != null )
+                {
+                    is.close();
+                }
+            }
+            catch ( IOException e )
+            {
+                // ignore
+            }
+        }
+
+        return properties;
+    }
+
+
     static class BootstrapPomParser
         extends DefaultHandler
     {