diff --git a/core/core.gradle b/core/core.gradle
index b41465facd..0812d22d00 100644
--- a/core/core.gradle
+++ b/core/core.gradle
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ dependencies {
             "org.springframework:spring-expression:$springVersion",
             "org.springframework:spring-jdbc:$springVersion",
             "org.springframework:spring-tx:$springVersion",
-            "org.springframework:spring-web:$springVersion",
             "org.aspectj:aspectjrt:$aspectjVersion",
             'javax.annotation:jsr250-api:1.0'
 
diff --git a/core/template.mf b/core/template.mf
index aeb2bd5822..e6421d4ca1 100644
--- a/core/template.mf
+++ b/core/template.mf
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ Import-Template:
  org.springframework.context.*;version="${springRange}",
  org.springframework.core.*;version="${springRange}",
  org.springframework.expression.*;version="${springRange}";resolution:=optional,
- org.springframework.remoting.*;version="${springRange}";resolution:=optional,
  org.springframework.dao.*;version="${springRange}";resolution:=optional,
  org.springframework.jdbc.*;version="${springRange}";resolution:=optional,
  org.springframework.transaction.*;version="${springRange}";resolution:=optional,
diff --git a/docs/manual/src/docbook/appendix-dependencies.xml b/docs/manual/src/docbook/appendix-dependencies.xml
index f532aee84c..63b53cf008 100644
--- a/docs/manual/src/docbook/appendix-dependencies.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/src/docbook/appendix-dependencies.xml
@@ -92,6 +92,34 @@
 
     </section>
 
+    <section>
+        <title><literal>spring-security-remoting</literal></title>
+        <para>This module is typically required in web applications which use the Servlet API.
+            <table xml:id="deps-remoting">
+                <title>Remoting Dependencies</title>
+                <tgroup cols="3" align="left">
+                    <colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="2*"/>
+                    <colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="1*"/>
+                    <colspec colnum="3" colname="col3" colwidth="3*"/>
+                    <thead>
+                        <row>
+                            <entry align="center">Dependency</entry>
+                            <entry align="center">Version</entry>
+                            <entry align="center">Description</entry>
+                        </row>
+                    </thead>
+                    <tbody>
+                        <row>
+                            <entry>spring-security-core</entry>
+                            <entry></entry>
+                            <entry></entry>
+                        </row>
+                    </tbody>
+                </tgroup>
+            </table>
+        </para>
+    </section>
+
     <section>
         <title><literal>spring-security-web</literal></title>
         <para>This module is typically required in web applications which use the Servlet API.
diff --git a/docs/manual/src/docbook/introduction.xml b/docs/manual/src/docbook/introduction.xml
index 892373a352..ef8d177a2d 100644
--- a/docs/manual/src/docbook/introduction.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/src/docbook/introduction.xml
@@ -239,11 +239,14 @@
                     <listitem>
                         <para><literal>org.springframework.security.provisioning</literal></para>
                     </listitem>
-                    <listitem>
-                        <para><literal>org.springframework.security.remoting</literal></para>
-                    </listitem>
                     </itemizedlist></para>
             </section>
+            <section xml:id="spring-security-remoting">
+                <title>Remoting - <literal>spring-security-remoting.jar</literal></title>
+                <para>Provides intergration with Spring Remoting. You don't need this unless you are
+                    writing a remote client which uses Spring Remoting. The main package is
+                    <literal>org.springframework.security.remoting</literal>.</para>
+            </section>
             <section xml:id="spring-security-web">
                 <title>Web - <literal>spring-security-web.jar</literal></title>
                 <para>Contains filters and related web-security infrastructure code. Anything with a
diff --git a/remoting/remoting.gradle b/remoting/remoting.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1cbf7c730e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/remoting/remoting.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// Remoting module build file
+
+dependencies {
+    compile project(':spring-security-core'),
+            'aopalliance:aopalliance:1.0',
+            "org.springframework:spring-beans:$springVersion",
+            "org.springframework:spring-context:$springVersion",
+            "org.springframework:spring-web:$springVersion"
+
+    testCompile project(':spring-security-core').sourceSets.test.classes
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsEntryNotFoundException.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsEntryNotFoundException.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsEntryNotFoundException.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsEntryNotFoundException.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsLookupException.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsLookupException.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsLookupException.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsLookupException.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsResolver.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsResolver.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsResolver.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/DnsResolver.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/InitialContextFactory.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/InitialContextFactory.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/InitialContextFactory.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/InitialContextFactory.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/JndiDnsResolver.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/JndiDnsResolver.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/JndiDnsResolver.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/JndiDnsResolver.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/package-info.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/package-info.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/package-info.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/package-info.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/AuthenticationSimpleHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/AuthenticationSimpleHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/AuthenticationSimpleHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/AuthenticationSimpleHttpInvokerRequestExecutor.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/package-info.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/package-info.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/package-info.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/package-info.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/package-info.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/package-info.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/package-info.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/package-info.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocation.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocation.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocation.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocation.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocationFactory.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocationFactory.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocationFactory.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocationFactory.java
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/package-info.java b/remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/package-info.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/package-info.java
rename to remoting/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/package-info.java
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/JndiDnsResolverTest.java b/remoting/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/JndiDnsResolverTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/JndiDnsResolverTest.java
rename to remoting/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/dns/JndiDnsResolverTest.java
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/AuthenticationSimpleHttpInvokerRequestExecutorTests.java b/remoting/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/AuthenticationSimpleHttpInvokerRequestExecutorTests.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/AuthenticationSimpleHttpInvokerRequestExecutorTests.java
rename to remoting/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/httpinvoker/AuthenticationSimpleHttpInvokerRequestExecutorTests.java
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocationTests.java b/remoting/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocationTests.java
similarity index 100%
rename from core/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocationTests.java
rename to remoting/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/remoting/rmi/ContextPropagatingRemoteInvocationTests.java
diff --git a/remoting/template.mf b/remoting/template.mf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d31c801405
--- /dev/null
+++ b/remoting/template.mf
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Implementation-Title: org.springframework.security.remoting
+Implementation-Version: ${version}
+Bundle-SymbolicName: org.springframework.security.remoting
+Bundle-Name: Spring Security Remoting
+Bundle-Vendor: SpringSource
+Bundle-Version: ${version}
+Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
+Excluded-Imports:
+ javax.naming.*
+Ignored-Existing-Headers:
+ Import-Package,
+ Export-Package
+Import-Template:
+ org.aopalliance.*;version="${aopAllianceRange}",
+ org.apache.commons.logging.*;version="${cloggingRange}",
+ org.springframework.security.core.*;version="${secRange}",
+ org.springframework.security.crypto.*;version="${secRange}",
+ org.springframework.core.*;version="${springRange}",
+ org.springframework.remoting.*;version="${springRange}"
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 21e47b903f..4568ac249e 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 def String[] modules = [
     'core',
+    'remoting',
     'web',
     'ldap',
     'acl',