diff --git a/hibernate-core/hibernate-core.gradle b/hibernate-core/hibernate-core.gradle
index 9f656426eb..4e0a80d6e6 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/hibernate-core.gradle
+++ b/hibernate-core/hibernate-core.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 apply plugin: 'java'
 apply plugin: 'antlr'
 
+// todo : we need to jar up hibernate-testing.jar from here
+
 dependencies {
     compile( libraries.commons_collections )
     compile( libraries.jta )
@@ -29,7 +31,6 @@ dependencies {
     }
 }
 
-
 manifest.mainAttributes(
         'Main-Class': 'org.hibernate.Version'
 )
diff --git a/testing/pom.xml b/testing/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1fb4186606..0000000000
--- a/testing/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-
-    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-    <parent>
-        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
-        <artifactId>hibernate-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>3.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
-    </parent>
-
-    <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
-    <artifactId>hibernate-testing</artifactId>
-    <packaging>jar</packaging>
-
-    <name>Hibernate Testing</name>
-    <description>Hibernate JUnit test utilities</description>
-
-    <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>${groupId}</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${version}</version>
-        </dependency>       
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>junit</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <!-- here we need to pull JUnit deps into compile scope, as opposed to the normal test scope -->
-            <version>3.8.1</version>
-            <scope>compile</scope>
-        </dependency>
-    </dependencies>
-
-    <build>
-        <resources>
-            <resource>
-                <filtering>false</filtering>
-                <directory>src/main/java</directory>
-                <includes>
-                    <include>**/*.hbm.xml</include>
-                </includes>
-            </resource>
-        </resources>
-    </build>
-</project>