diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a84060656..0000000000
--- a/.classpath
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<classpath>
-    <classpathentry excluding="**/CVS/*" kind="src" path="src/testcases"/>
-    <classpathentry excluding="**/CVS/*" kind="src" path="src/java"/>
-    <classpathentry excluding="**/CVS/*" kind="src" path="src/contrib/src"/>
-    <classpathentry kind="var" path="JRE_LIB" sourcepath="JRE_SRC"/>
-    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/commons-logging-1.0.1.jar"/>
-    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar"/>
-    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="src/contrib/lib/commons-lang-1.0-b1.jar"/>
-    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="src/contrib/lib/commons-beanutils-1.6.jar"/>
-    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
-    <classpathentry kind="output" path="build"/>
-</classpath>
diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index 558342ccee..9a736c2485 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ build.number
 log*.*
 *.log
 build
+.classpath
+.project
diff --git a/.project b/.project
deleted file mode 100644
index 13100e35d8..0000000000
--- a/.project
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<projectDescription>
-	<name>POI-Head-1</name>
-	<comment></comment>
-	<projects>
-	</projects>
-	<buildSpec>
-		<buildCommand>
-			<name>com.atlassw.tools.eclipse.checkstyle.CheckstyleBuilder</name>
-			<arguments>
-			</arguments>
-		</buildCommand>
-		<buildCommand>
-			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
-			<arguments>
-			</arguments>
-		</buildCommand>
-	</buildSpec>
-	<natures>
-		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
-		<nature>com.atlassw.tools.eclipse.checkstyle.CheckstyleNature</nature>
-	</natures>
-</projectDescription>