diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b21d656772..1a11bd055f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -153,7 +153,6 @@
         <module>spring-mvc-email</module>
         <module>spring-mvc-forms</module>
         <module>spring-mvc-java</module>
-        <module>spring-mvc-no-xml</module>
         <module>spring-mvc-tiles</module>
         <module>spring-mvc-velocity</module>
         <module>spring-mvc-web-vs-initializer</module>
diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/.gitignore b/spring-mvc-no-xml/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 83c05e60c8..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-*.class
-
-#folders#
-/target
-/neoDb*
-/data
-/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
-*/META-INF/*
-
-# Packaged files #
-*.jar
-*.war
-*.ear
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/README.md b/spring-mvc-no-xml/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 208cb35f78..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-=========
-
-## Spring MVC with NO XML Configuration Example Project
-
-###The Course
-The "REST With Spring" Classes: http://bit.ly/restwithspring
-
-### Relevant Articles: 
-- 
diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/pom.xml b/spring-mvc-no-xml/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4437661199..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,175 +0,0 @@
-<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>
-    <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
-    <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <artifactId>spring-mvc-no-xml</artifactId>
-
-    <name>spring-mvc-no-xml</name>
-    <packaging>war</packaging>
-
-    <dependencies>
-
-        <!-- Spring -->
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
-            <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
-            <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <!-- web -->
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
-            <version>${javax.servlet-api.version}</version>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
-            <version>${jstl.version}</version>
-            <scope>runtime</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <!-- logging -->
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-            <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
-            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
-            <version>${logback.version}</version>
-            <!-- <scope>runtime</scope> -->
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
-            <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
-            <!-- <scope>runtime</scope> --> <!-- some spring dependencies need to compile against jcl -->
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency> <!-- needed to bridge to slf4j for projects that use the log4j APIs directly -->
-            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
-            <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <!-- test scoped -->
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>junit</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>${junit.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hamcrest-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${org.hamcrest.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hamcrest-library</artifactId>
-            <version>${org.hamcrest.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${mockito.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
-    </dependencies>
-
-    <build>
-        <finalName>spring-mvc-no-xml</finalName>
-        <resources>
-            <resource>
-                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
-                <filtering>true</filtering>
-            </resource>
-        </resources>
-
-        <plugins>
-
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
-                <configuration>
-                    <source>1.8</source>
-                    <target>1.8</target>
-                </configuration>
-            </plugin>
-
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>${maven-war-plugin.version}</version>
-                <configuration>
-                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
-                </configuration>
-            </plugin>
-
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</version>
-                <configuration>
-                    <excludes>
-                        <!-- <exclude>**/*ProductionTest.java</exclude> -->
-                    </excludes>
-                    <systemPropertyVariables>
-                        <!-- <provPersistenceTarget>h2</provPersistenceTarget> -->
-                    </systemPropertyVariables>
-                </configuration>
-            </plugin>
-
-        </plugins>
-
-    </build>
-
-    <properties>
-        <!-- Spring -->
-        <org.springframework.version>4.3.4.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
-
-        <!-- logging -->
-        <org.slf4j.version>1.7.21</org.slf4j.version>
-        <logback.version>1.1.7</logback.version>
-
-        <!-- testing -->
-        <org.hamcrest.version>1.3</org.hamcrest.version>
-        <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
-        <mockito.version>1.10.19</mockito.version>
-
-        <javax.servlet-api.version>3.1.0</javax.servlet-api.version>
-        <jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
-
-        <httpcore.version>4.4.5</httpcore.version>
-        <httpclient.version>4.5.2</httpclient.version>
-
-        <rest-assured.version>2.9.0</rest-assured.version>
-
-        <!-- Maven plugins -->
-        <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.6.0</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
-        <maven-war-plugin.version>2.6</maven-war-plugin.version>
-        <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.19.1</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
-        <maven-resources-plugin.version>2.7</maven-resources-plugin.version>
-        <cargo-maven2-plugin.version>1.6.1</cargo-maven2-plugin.version>
-
-    </properties>
-
-</project>
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/servlet/WebAppNew.java b/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/servlet/WebAppNew.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 2422f2110a..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/servlet/WebAppNew.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-package org.baeldung.servlet;
-
-import javax.servlet.ServletRegistration.Dynamic;
-
-import org.baeldung.spring.ClientWebConfig;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.support.AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer;
-
-/**
- * <b>Further reading</b>: <br/>
- * - http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.2.x/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html#mvc-container-config <br/>
- * - http://geowarin.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/complete-example-of-a-spring-mvc-3-2-project/ <br/>
- * - http://www.objectpartners.com/2012/01/16/introduction-to-servlet-3-0/ <br/>
- */
-public class WebAppNew extends AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer {
-
-    public WebAppNew() {
-        super();
-    }
-
-    // API
-
-    @Override
-    protected Class<?>[] getRootConfigClasses() {
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected Class<?>[] getServletConfigClasses() {
-        return new Class<?>[] { ClientWebConfig.class };
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected String[] getServletMappings() {
-        return new String[] { "/" };
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected void customizeRegistration(final Dynamic registration) {
-        super.customizeRegistration(registration);
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/servlet/WebAppOld.java b/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/servlet/WebAppOld.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 85c67c094d..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/servlet/WebAppOld.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-package org.baeldung.servlet;
-
-// public class WebApp implements WebApplicationInitializer {
-//
-// public WebApp() {
-// super();
-// }
-//
-// // API
-//
-// @Override
-// public void onStartup(final ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
-// final AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext root = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
-// root.setServletContext(servletContext);
-// root.scan("org.baeldung.spring");
-// root.refresh();
-//
-// final Dynamic servlet = servletContext.addServlet("mvc", new DispatcherServlet(root));
-// servlet.setLoadOnStartup(1);
-// servlet.addMapping("/");
-// }
-//
-// }
diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java b/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java
deleted file mode 100644
index eaefb0984b..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-package org.baeldung.spring;
-
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ViewControllerRegistry;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView;
-
-@EnableWebMvc
-@Configuration
-public class ClientWebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
-
-    public ClientWebConfig() {
-        super();
-    }
-
-    // API
-
-    @Override
-    public void addViewControllers(final ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
-        super.addViewControllers(registry);
-
-        registry.addViewController("/sample.html");
-    }
-
-    @Bean
-    public ViewResolver viewResolver() {
-        final InternalResourceViewResolver bean = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
-
-        bean.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
-        bean.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/view/");
-        bean.setSuffix(".jsp");
-
-        return bean;
-    }
-}
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/resources/logback.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1146dade63..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/resources/logback.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-<configuration>
-
-	<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
-		<encoder>
-			<pattern>web - %date [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %message%n
-			</pattern>
-		</encoder>
-	</appender>
-
-	<logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN" />
-	<logger name="org.springframework.transaction" level="WARN" />
-
-	<!-- in order to debug some marshalling issues, this needs to be TRACE -->
-	<logger name="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc" level="WARN" />
-
-	<root level="INFO">
-		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
-	</root>
-
-</configuration>
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml b/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index febac349b0..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-4.2.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.3.xsd"
->
-
-    <http use-expressions="true">
-    	<access-denied-handler error-page="/access-denied.html" />
-        <intercept-url pattern="/access-denied*" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_LOCATION_WRITE','ROLE_POLYGON_WRITE')"/>
-        <intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_ADMIN')"/>
-        <intercept-url pattern="/organization/**" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_ORGANIZATION')"/>
-        <intercept-url pattern="/location/edit*" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_LOCATION_WRITE')"/>
-        <intercept-url pattern="/location/view*" access="permitAll"/>
-
-        <intercept-url pattern="/login*" access="isAnonymous()"/>
-        <intercept-url pattern="/register*" access="isAnonymous()"/>
-        <intercept-url pattern="/login-denied/**" access="isAnonymous()"/>
-
-        <intercept-url pattern="/**" access="permitAll"/>
-
-        <form-login login-page='/login.html' default-target-url="/" always-use-default-target="false" authentication-failure-url="/login.html?error=true"/>
-
-        <logout/>
-
-        <anonymous/>
-
-        <session-management invalid-session-url="/">
-            <concurrency-control max-sessions="1"/>
-        </session-management>
-    </http>
-
-    <authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager" erase-credentials="false">
-        <authentication-provider ref="restAuthenticationProvider"/>
-    </authentication-manager>
-
-</beans:beans>
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml b/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ba9642448..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd" >
-
-</beans>
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/sample.jsp b/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/sample.jsp
deleted file mode 100644
index 7cc14b5dcd..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/sample.jsp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<html>
-<head></head>
-
-<body>
-	<h1>This is the body of the sample view</h1>
-</body>
-</html>
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web_old.xml b/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web_old.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e2f52148c3..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web_old.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="
-      http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
-      http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0"
->
-
-    <display-name>Spring MVC No XML Application</display-name>
-
-    <!-- Spring root -->
-    <context-param>
-        <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
-        <param-value>
-        	org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
-      	</param-value>
-    </context-param>
-    <context-param>
-        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
-        <param-value>org.baeldung.spring</param-value>
-    </context-param>
-
-    <listener>
-        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
-    </listener>
-
-    <!-- Spring child -->
-    <servlet>
-        <servlet-name>mvc</servlet-name>
-        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
-        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
-    </servlet>
-    <servlet-mapping>
-        <servlet-name>mvc</servlet-name>
-        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
-    </servlet-mapping>
-
-    <!-- additional config -->
-
-    <welcome-file-list>
-        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
-    </welcome-file-list>
-
-</web-app>
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diff --git a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/test/resources/.gitignore b/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/test/resources/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 83c05e60c8..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-no-xml/src/test/resources/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-*.class
-
-#folders#
-/target
-/neoDb*
-/data
-/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
-*/META-INF/*
-
-# Packaged files #
-*.jar
-*.war
-*.ear
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