diff --git a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/PomClassicDomainModelFactory.java b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/PomClassicDomainModelFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b87688c40d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/PomClassicDomainModelFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package org.apache.maven.project.builder;
+
+import org.apache.maven.shared.model.DomainModelFactory;
+import org.apache.maven.shared.model.DomainModel;
+import org.apache.maven.shared.model.ModelProperty;
+import org.apache.maven.shared.model.ModelMarshaller;
+import org.apache.maven.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlPullParserException;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+
+public class PomClassicDomainModelFactory implements DomainModelFactory
+{
+    public DomainModel createDomainModel(List<ModelProperty> modelProperties) throws IOException
+    {
+        String xml = null;
+        try
+        {
+            xml = ModelMarshaller.unmarshalModelPropertiesToXml( modelProperties, ProjectUri.baseUri );
+            return new PomClassicDomainModel( new MavenXpp3Reader().read( new StringReader( xml ) ) );
+        }
+        catch ( XmlPullParserException e )
+        {
+            throw new IOException( e + ":\r\n" + xml );
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/PomClassicTransformer.java b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/PomClassicTransformer.java
index 9f48127ac3..a1ac7846f1 100644
--- a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/PomClassicTransformer.java
+++ b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/PomClassicTransformer.java
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ public final class PomClassicTransformer
     implements ModelTransformer
 {
 
+    private final DomainModelFactory factory;
+
+    public PomClassicTransformer(DomainModelFactory factory)
+    {
+        this.factory = factory;
+    }
+
     private static Map<String, List<ModelProperty>> cache = new HashMap<String, List<ModelProperty>>();
 
     /**
@@ -168,16 +175,7 @@ public final class PomClassicTransformer
             }
         }
 
-        String xml = null;
-        try
-        {
-            xml = ModelMarshaller.unmarshalModelPropertiesToXml( props, ProjectUri.baseUri );
-            return new PomClassicDomainModel( new MavenXpp3Reader().read( new StringReader( xml ) ) );
-        }
-        catch ( XmlPullParserException e )
-        {
-            throw new IOException( e + ":\r\n" + xml );
-        }
+        return factory.createDomainModel( props );
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/impl/DefaultProjectBuilder.java b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/impl/DefaultProjectBuilder.java
index 3453ad3065..3b15674200 100644
--- a/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/impl/DefaultProjectBuilder.java
+++ b/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/builder/impl/DefaultProjectBuilder.java
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ public final class DefaultProjectBuilder
             domainModels.add( new PomClassicDomainModel( model ) );
         }
 
-        PomClassicTransformer transformer = new PomClassicTransformer( );
+        PomClassicTransformer transformer = new PomClassicTransformer( new PomClassicDomainModelFactory() );
         ModelTransformerContext ctx = new ModelTransformerContext(
             Arrays.asList( new ArtifactModelContainerFactory(), new IdModelContainerFactory() ) );