diff --git a/its/core-integration-tests-support/maven-integration-test-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/resources/mng-xxxx-descriptionOfProblem/checkstyle-assembly/target/checkstyle-assembly-1.0.jar b/its/core-integration-tests-support/maven-integration-test-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/resources/mng-xxxx-descriptionOfProblem/checkstyle-assembly/target/checkstyle-assembly-1.0.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 7fa9a8ca3d..0000000000
Binary files a/its/core-integration-tests-support/maven-integration-test-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/resources/mng-xxxx-descriptionOfProblem/checkstyle-assembly/target/checkstyle-assembly-1.0.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/its/core-integration-tests-support/maven-integration-test-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/resources/mng-xxxx-descriptionOfProblem/checkstyle-assembly/target/classes/rule_set.xml b/its/core-integration-tests-support/maven-integration-test-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/resources/mng-xxxx-descriptionOfProblem/checkstyle-assembly/target/classes/rule_set.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index fda8b54278..0000000000
--- a/its/core-integration-tests-support/maven-integration-test-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/resources/mng-xxxx-descriptionOfProblem/checkstyle-assembly/target/classes/rule_set.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<ruleset name="EPHS Custom ruleset"
-    xmlns="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0"
-    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0 http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd"
-    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd">
-
-  <description>
-  This ruleset checks EPHS code
-  </description>
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/finalizers.xml"/>  
-
-  
-  <rule ref="rulesets/controversial.xml/UnnecessaryParentheses"/>
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/optimizations.xml/UseArrayListInsteadOfVector"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/optimizations.xml/SimplifyStartsWith"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/optimizations.xml/UseArraysAsList"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/optimizations.xml/AvoidArrayLoops"/>
-  <!--<rule ref="rulesets/optimizations.xml/UnnecessaryWrapperObjectCreation"/> -->
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/j2ee.xml/UseProperClassLoader"/>
-
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/EmptyCatchBlock"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/EmptyIfStmt"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/EmptyWhileStmt"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/EmptyTryBlock"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/EmptyFinallyBlock"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/EmptySwitchStatements"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/JumbledIncrementer"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/UnnecessaryConversionTemporary"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/DoubleCheckedLocking"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/OverrideBothEqualsAndHashcode"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/ReturnFromFinallyBlock"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/EmptySynchronizedBlock"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/UnnecessaryReturn"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/UnconditionalIfStatement"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/EmptyStatementNotInLoop"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/BooleanInstantiation"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/CollapsibleIfStatements"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/ClassCastExceptionWithToArray"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/UselessOperationOnImmutable"/>
- <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/NullPointerException"/> -->
-  <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/AvoidThreadGroup"/>
- <!-- <rule ref="rulesets/basic.xml/BrokenNullCheck"/> -->
- 
-  <rule ref="rulesets/sunsecure.xml"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/strictexception.xml"/>
-  
-  <rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/ExcessiveMethodLength"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/ExcessiveParameterList"/>
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/SimplifyBooleanReturns"/>  
-  
-  
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/AvoidDeeplyNestedIfStmts"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/ConstructorCallsOverridableMethod"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/CloseResource"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/NonStaticInitializer"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/DefaultLabelNotLastInSwitchStmt"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/NonCaseLabelInSwitchStatement"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/OptimizableToArrayCall"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/BadComparison"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/EqualsNull"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/InstantiationToGetClass"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/IdempotentOperations"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/AssignmentToNonFinalStatic"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/MissingStaticMethodInNonInstantiatableClass"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/MissingBreakInSwitch"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/UseNotifyAllInsteadOfNotify"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/SimplifyConditional"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/CompareObjectsWithEquals"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/UnnecessaryLocalBeforeReturn"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/UnsynchronizedStaticDateFormatter"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/PreserveStackTrace"/>
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/strings.xml/StringInstantiation"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/strings.xml/StringToString"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/strings.xml/UnnecessaryCaseChange"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/strings.xml/UseStringBufferLength"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/strings.xml/InsufficientStringBufferDeclaration"/>
-  <!--<rule ref="rulesets/strings.xml/UselessStringValueOf"/>  -->
-
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/imports.xml"/>
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/VariableNamingConventions"/>
-
-  <!--<rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/AvoidDollarSign"/> -->
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/SuspiciousHashcodeMethodName"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/SuspiciousConstantFieldName"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/SuspiciousEqualsMethodName"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/AvoidFieldNameMatchingTypeName"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/AvoidFieldNameMatchingMethodName"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/AvoidNonConstructorMethodsWithClassName"/>
-  
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/NoPackage"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/PackageCase"/>  
-  <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/MisleadingVariableName"/>
-
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/logging-java.xml/SystemPrintln"/>
-  <rule ref="rulesets/logging-java.xml/AvoidPrintStackTrace"/>
-  
-  <rule ref="rulesets/logging-jakarta-commons.xml/UseCorrectExceptionLogging"/>
-  
-
-  <rule ref="rulesets/braces.xml"/>
-
-</ruleset>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/its/core-integration-tests-support/maven-integration-test-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/resources/mng-xxxx-descriptionOfProblem/checkstyle-assembly/target/classes/stc_checks.xml b/its/core-integration-tests-support/maven-integration-test-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/resources/mng-xxxx-descriptionOfProblem/checkstyle-assembly/target/classes/stc_checks.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index dc29df877c..0000000000
--- a/its/core-integration-tests-support/maven-integration-test-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/src/test/resources/mng-xxxx-descriptionOfProblem/checkstyle-assembly/target/classes/stc_checks.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!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 sun coding conventions from:
-
-    - the Java Language Specification at
-      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
-
-    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
-
-    - the Javadoc guidelines at
-      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
-
-    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
-
-    - some best practices
-
-  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
-  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
-
-  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
-
-  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
-
-  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
-
--->
-
-<module name="Checker">
-  <module name="TreeWalker">
-
-    <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
-    <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-    <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
-    <module name="RedundantImport"/>
-    <module name="UnusedImports"/>
-
-
-    <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
-
-
-
-    <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
-
-    <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
-    <module name="LeftCurly">
-      <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="RightCurly">
-      <property name="option" value="alone"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="TabCharacter"/>
-    <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
-
-    <module name="ParenPad"/>
-    <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
-    <module name="PackageName"/>
-
-
-    <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
-
-
-    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
-    <module name="DoubleCheckedLocking"/>    <!-- MY FAVOURITE -->
-    <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
-
-
-    <module name="GenericIllegalRegexp"> 
-      <!-- \s matches whitespace character, $ matches end of line. --> 
-      <property name="format" value="(?:\x66\x75\x63\x6B)|(?:\x73\x68\x69\x74)|(?:\x63\x75\x6E\x74)"/>
-      <property name="ignoreCase" value="true" />
-      <property name="message" value="Code contains inappropriate language"/>
-
-    </module>
-
-    <!--http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_sizes.html-->
-    <!-- eclipse formatting does not shorten lines -->
-   <!-- <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-      <property name="max" value="132"/>
-    </module> -->
-
-    <!-- the following exist in sufficent abundance that enforcing and even warning on these is impractical -->
-    <!--
-    <module name="ParameterName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*" />
-    </module> -->
-
-
-    <!-- http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_coding.html#IllegalCatch-->
-   <!-- <module name="IllegalCatch">
-      <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-    </module>   
-
-    <module name="IllegalThrows">
-      <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-    </module>  
-
-    <module name="DefaultComesLast"/>
-
-    <module name="FallThrough">
-      <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-    </module>  --> 
-
-
-
-
-  </module>
-</module>