diff --git a/benchmark/build.xml b/benchmark/build.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 80a0f18948..0000000000
--- a/benchmark/build.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-<project name="xstream" default="jar">
-
-    <property name="version" value="1.0"/>
-
-    <target name="compile" description="Compile all Java">
-      <mkdir dir="target/classes"/>
-      <javac srcdir="src/main/java" destdir="target/classes"/>
-    </target>
-
-    <target name="test" depends="compile" description="Run all acceptance tests and unit tests">
-      <mkdir dir="target/test-classes"/>
-      <javac srcdir="src/test" destdir="build/test-classes" classpath="build/classes" classpathref="classpath"/>
-      <junit printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="yes" fork="no">
-        <classpath refid="classpath"/>
-          <classpath>
-            <pathelement location="target/classes"/>
-            <pathelement location="target/test-classes"/>
-          </classpath>
-        <formatter type="brief" usefile="no"/>
-          <batchtest>
-            <fileset dir="src/test">
-              <include name="**/*Test*.java"/>
-              <exclude name="**/Abstract*"/>
-            </fileset>
-        </batchtest>
-      </junit>
-    </target>
-
-    <target name="jar" depends="compile" description="Build JARs">
-      <jar jarfile="target/xstream-${version}.jar">
-        <fileset dir="target/classes"/>
-      </jar>
-    </target>
-
-</project>
diff --git a/benchmark/pom.xml b/benchmark/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a68e2dbfa..0000000000
--- a/benchmark/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<model 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>
-  <groupId>foo</groupId>
-  <artifactId>foo</artifactId>
-  <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>1.0</version>
-</model>
diff --git a/benchmark/project.xml b/benchmark/project.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4bf737f718..0000000000
--- a/benchmark/project.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<project>
-  <groupId>foo</groupId>
-  <artifactId>foo</artifactId>
-  <currentVersion>1.0</currentVersion>
-  <build>
-    <sourceDirectory>src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
-  </build>
-</project>
diff --git a/benchmark/run b/benchmark/run
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index 44a2e4c46d..0000000000
--- a/benchmark/run
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-rm -rf target
-
-echo Run with ant...
-
-time -p ant jar > /dev/null
-
-rm -rf target
-
-echo Run with m2...
-
-time -p m2 -B package > /dev/null
-
-rm -rf target
-
-echo Run with maven...
-
-time -p maven jar > /dev/null
diff --git a/benchmark/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/Foo.java b/benchmark/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/Foo.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 74dc32765b..0000000000
--- a/benchmark/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/Foo.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-package org.apache.maven;
-
-public class Foo
-{
-}