diff --git a/its/core-it-support/maven-it-sample-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/.classpath b/its/core-it-support/maven-it-sample-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/.classpath
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index 76079e5a0f..0000000000
--- a/its/core-it-support/maven-it-sample-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/.classpath
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<classpath>
-  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java" output="target/test-classes"/>
-  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/resources" output="target/test-classes" excluding="**/*.java"/>
-  <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
-  <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
-  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/maven/its/maven-integration-test-helper/${version}/maven-integration-test-helper-${version}.jar"/>
-  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1-sources.jar"/>
-  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/1.1/plexus-utils-1.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/1.1/plexus-utils-1.1-sources.jar"/>
-  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/maven/maven-artifact/2.0.5/maven-artifact-2.0.5.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/apache/maven/maven-artifact/2.0.5/maven-artifact-2.0.5-sources.jar"/>
-  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/maven/shared/maven-verifier/1.0/maven-verifier-1.0.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/apache/maven/shared/maven-verifier/1.0/maven-verifier-1.0-sources.jar"/>
-</classpath>
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diff --git a/its/core-it-support/maven-it-sample-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/.project b/its/core-it-support/maven-it-sample-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/.project
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index 4eb9c7547e..0000000000
--- a/its/core-it-support/maven-it-sample-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/.project
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-<projectDescription>
-  <name>${artifactId}</name>
-  <comment/>
-  <projects/>
-  <buildSpec>
-    <buildCommand>
-      <name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
-    </buildCommand>
-  </buildSpec>
-  <natures>
-    <nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
-  </natures>
-</projectDescription>
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