diff --git a/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/transform/AbstractVersionTransformation.java b/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/transform/AbstractVersionTransformation.java
index a7c791b1f1..6ac4275968 100644
--- a/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/transform/AbstractVersionTransformation.java
+++ b/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/transform/AbstractVersionTransformation.java
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractVersionTransformation
     private VersionArtifactMetadata readFromLocalRepository( Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository localRepository )
         throws IOException
     {
+        // TODO: we could cache the results of this, perhaps inside the artifact repository?
         AbstractVersionArtifactMetadata metadata = createMetadata( artifact );
         metadata.readFromLocalRepository( localRepository );
         return metadata;
diff --git a/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/transform/DefaultArtifactTransformationManager.java b/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/transform/DefaultArtifactTransformationManager.java
index 4e3ef70efe..2347c30433 100644
--- a/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/transform/DefaultArtifactTransformationManager.java
+++ b/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/transform/DefaultArtifactTransformationManager.java
@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 package org.apache.maven.artifact.transform;
 
+/*
+ * Copyright 2001-2005 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.
+ */
+
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata.ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException;
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository;
@@ -10,11 +26,8 @@ import java.util.List;
 public class DefaultArtifactTransformationManager
     implements ArtifactTransformationManager
 {
-
     private List artifactTransformations;
 
-    private SnapshotTransformation snapshotTransformation;
-
     public void transformForResolve( Artifact artifact, List remoteRepositories, ArtifactRepository localRepository )
         throws ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException
     {
diff --git a/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml b/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml
index efd66c4d3d..9e58a85638 100644
--- a/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml
+++ b/maven-artifact-manager/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml
@@ -61,11 +61,6 @@
           <role>org.apache.maven.artifact.transform.ArtifactTransformation</role>
           <field-name>artifactTransformations</field-name>
         </requirement>
-        <requirement>
-          <role>org.apache.maven.artifact.transform.ArtifactTransformation</role>
-          <role-hint>snapshot</role-hint>
-          <field-name>snapshotTransformation</field-name>
-        </requirement>
       </requirements>
     </component>