diff --git a/mina-core/pom.xml.releaseBackup b/mina-core/pom.xml.releaseBackup
deleted file mode 100644
index 88d03d64b..000000000
--- a/mina-core/pom.xml.releaseBackup
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,116 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-
-<!--
-  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  distributed with this work for additional information
-  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  
-  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  
-  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  under the License.
--->
-
-<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.apache.mina</groupId>
-    <artifactId>mina-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>2.2.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  </parent>
-
-  <artifactId>mina-core</artifactId>
-  <name>Apache MINA Core</name>
-  <packaging>bundle</packaging>
-
-  <dependencies>
-    <!-- Test dependencies -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
-      <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-      <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-
-  </dependencies>
-  
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
-        <inherited>true</inherited>
-        <extensions>true</extensions>
-        <configuration>
-          <manifestLocation>META-INF</manifestLocation>
-          <instructions>
-            <Bundle-SymbolicName>${project.groupId}.core</Bundle-SymbolicName>
-            <Export-Package>
-              org.apache.mina.core,
-              org.apache.mina.core.buffer,
-              org.apache.mina.core.buffer.matcher,
-              org.apache.mina.core.file,
-              org.apache.mina.core.filterchain,
-              org.apache.mina.core.future,
-              org.apache.mina.core.polling,
-              org.apache.mina.core.service,
-              org.apache.mina.core.session,
-              org.apache.mina.core.write,
-              org.apache.mina.filter,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.buffer,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.demux,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.prefixedstring,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.serialization,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.statemachine,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.textline,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.errorgenerating,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.executor,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.firewall,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.keepalive,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.logging,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.ssl,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.statistic,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.stream,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.util,
-              org.apache.mina.handler.chain,
-              org.apache.mina.handler.demux,
-              org.apache.mina.handler.multiton,
-              org.apache.mina.handler.stream,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.event,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.filter,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.http,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.http.basic,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.http.digest,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.http.ntlm,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.socks,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.session,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.utils,
-              org.apache.mina.transport.socket,
-              org.apache.mina.transport.socket.nio,
-              org.apache.mina.transport.vmpipe,
-              org.apache.mina.util,
-              org.apache.mina.util.byteaccess
-            </Export-Package>
-            <Import-Package>
-              javax.crypto,javax.crypto.spec,javax.net.ssl,javax.security.sasl,org.slf4j;version=${osgi-min-version.slf4j.api}
-            </Import-Package>
-          </instructions>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-</project>
diff --git a/mina-core/pom.xml.tag b/mina-core/pom.xml.tag
deleted file mode 100644
index d73e3c0c4..000000000
--- a/mina-core/pom.xml.tag
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,116 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-
-<!--
-  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-  distributed with this work for additional information
-  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  
-  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  
-  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-  specific language governing permissions and limitations
-  under the License.
--->
-
-<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.apache.mina</groupId>
-    <artifactId>mina-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>2.2.4</version>
-  </parent>
-
-  <artifactId>mina-core</artifactId>
-  <name>Apache MINA Core</name>
-  <packaging>bundle</packaging>
-
-  <dependencies>
-    <!-- Test dependencies -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
-      <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-      <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-
-  </dependencies>
-  
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
-        <inherited>true</inherited>
-        <extensions>true</extensions>
-        <configuration>
-          <manifestLocation>META-INF</manifestLocation>
-          <instructions>
-            <Bundle-SymbolicName>${project.groupId}.core</Bundle-SymbolicName>
-            <Export-Package>
-              org.apache.mina.core,
-              org.apache.mina.core.buffer,
-              org.apache.mina.core.buffer.matcher,
-              org.apache.mina.core.file,
-              org.apache.mina.core.filterchain,
-              org.apache.mina.core.future,
-              org.apache.mina.core.polling,
-              org.apache.mina.core.service,
-              org.apache.mina.core.session,
-              org.apache.mina.core.write,
-              org.apache.mina.filter,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.buffer,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.demux,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.prefixedstring,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.serialization,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.statemachine,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.codec.textline,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.errorgenerating,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.executor,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.firewall,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.keepalive,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.logging,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.ssl,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.statistic,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.stream,
-              org.apache.mina.filter.util,
-              org.apache.mina.handler.chain,
-              org.apache.mina.handler.demux,
-              org.apache.mina.handler.multiton,
-              org.apache.mina.handler.stream,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.event,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.filter,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.http,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.http.basic,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.http.digest,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.http.ntlm,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.handlers.socks,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.session,
-              org.apache.mina.proxy.utils,
-              org.apache.mina.transport.socket,
-              org.apache.mina.transport.socket.nio,
-              org.apache.mina.transport.vmpipe,
-              org.apache.mina.util,
-              org.apache.mina.util.byteaccess
-            </Export-Package>
-            <Import-Package>
-              javax.crypto,javax.crypto.spec,javax.net.ssl,javax.security.sasl,org.slf4j;version=${osgi-min-version.slf4j.api}
-            </Import-Package>
-          </instructions>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-</project>
diff --git a/mina-integration-xbean/pom.xml b/mina-integration-xbean/pom.xml
index ae21b7200..02c10a11b 100644
--- a/mina-integration-xbean/pom.xml
+++ b/mina-integration-xbean/pom.xml
@@ -47,13 +47,6 @@
       <type>bundle</type>
     </dependency>
 
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-      <artifactId>mina-core</artifactId>
-      <version>${project.version}</version>
-      <classifier>sources</classifier>
-    </dependency>
-
     <dependency>
       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
       <artifactId>mina-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fcb28dc7d..f1979ee53 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -827,18 +827,6 @@
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>
 
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>attach-source</id>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>jar</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>