diff --git a/maven-repository-provisioner/pom.xml b/maven-repository-provisioner/pom.xml
index 8629ccc..d52a3d4 100644
--- a/maven-repository-provisioner/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-repository-provisioner/pom.xml
@@ -148,9 +148,6 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>io.takari.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>takari-lifecycle-plugin</artifactId>
diff --git a/maven-repository-provisioner/src/conf/maven_checks.xml b/maven-repository-provisioner/src/conf/maven_checks.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 00b6168..0000000
--- a/maven-repository-provisioner/src/conf/maven_checks.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,209 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-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.
--->
-
-<!--
-Manfred Moser:
-This is the maven_checks.xml file from the Maven Checkstyle Plugin
-retrieved from
-http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/plugins/tags/maven-checkstyle-plugin-2.9.1/src/main/resources/config/maven_checks.xml
-with the license header check disabled as the only difference, since the
-Android Maven Plugin uses the APL v2 but with copyright mentions -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN"
-    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
-
-<!--
-  Checkstyle configuration that checks the maven coding conventions from:
--->
-
-<module name="Checker">
-
-    <!-- Checks that each Java package has a Javadoc file used for commenting. -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage       -->
-    <!--module name="JavadocPackage">
-      <property name="allowLegacy" value="true"/>
-    </module-->
-
-    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
-    <!-- module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/ -->
-
-    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
-    <!-- module name="Translation"/ -->
-
-    <module name="FileLength"/>
-
-    <!-- Checks for Headers                              -->
-    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html -->
-    <!--<module name="RegexpHeader">-->
-      <!--<property name="headerFile" value="${checkstyle.header.file}"/>-->
-    <!--</module>-->
-
-    <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-        <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <!-- Line with trailing spaces (disabled as it's too noisy) -->
-    <!--<module name="RegexpSingleline">
-        <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
-        <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
-    </module>-->
-
-    <module name="TreeWalker">
-
-        <property name="cacheFile" value="${checkstyle.cache.file}"/>
-
-        <property name="tabWidth" value="4"/>
-
-        <module name="LeftCurly">
-          <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <module name="RightCurly">
-          <property name="option" value="alone"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <module name="LineLength">
-          <property name="max" value="120" />
-          <property name="ignorePattern" value="@version|@see|@todo|TODO"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <module name="MemberName" />
-
-        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
-<!--
-        <module name="JavadocMethod">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-          <property name="scope" value="protected"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="JavadocType">
-          <property name="scope" value="protected"/>
-          <property name="allowUnknownTags" value="true" />
-        </module>
-        <module name="JavadocVariable">
-          <property name="severity" value="info"/>
-          <property name="scope" value="protected"/>
-        </module>
--->
-
-        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
-        <module name="ConstantName"/>
-        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
-        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
-        <module name="MethodName"/>
-        <module name="PackageName"/>
-        <module name="ParameterName"/>
-        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
-        <module name="TypeName"/>
-
-        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
-        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-        <module name="IllegalImport"/>
-        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
-        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
-        <module name="MethodLength"/>
-        <module name="ParameterNumber">
-            <property name="max" value="10"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
-        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad">
-          <property name="option" value="space"/>
-        </module>
-        <!-- module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/ -->
-        <!-- module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/ -->
-        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
-        <module name="ParenPad">
-          <property name="option" value="space" />
-        </module>
-        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
-        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
-        <!-- module name="MethodParamPad"/ -->
-
-
-        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
-        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
-        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
-        <module name="EmptyBlock">
-          <property name="option" value="text"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-
-
-        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
-        <!-- module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/ 
-        <module name="DoubleCheckedLocking"/>  -->
-        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
-        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
-        <module name="HiddenField">
-          <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-          <property name="ignoreSetter" value="true"/>
-          <property name="ignoreConstructorParameter" value="true"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
-        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
-        <module name="MagicNumber">
-          <!-- some numbers are really not that magic -->
-          <property name="ignoreNumbers" value="-4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 32, 64, 100, 128, 256, 512, 1000, 1024"/>
-        </module>
-        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
-        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
-
-        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
-        <!-- module name="DesignForExtension"/ -->
-        <!-- module name="FinalClass"/ -->
-        <!-- module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/ -->
-        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
-        <module name="VisibilityModifier">
-          <property name="protectedAllowed" value="true"/>
-          <property name="packageAllowed" value="true"/>
-        </module>
-
-        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
-        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
-        <!-- module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/ -->
-        <!-- module name="FinalParameters"/ -->
-        <!-- Let todo plugin handle this.
-        <module name="TodoComment"/>
-          -->
-        <module name="UpperEll"/>
-
-    </module>
-
-</module>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1824566..a974060 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -63,22 +63,6 @@
             <autoReleaseAfterClose>true</autoReleaseAfterClose>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
-        <plugin>
-          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-          <configuration>
-            <configLocation>src/conf/maven_checks.xml</configLocation>
-            <includeTestSourceDirectory>true</includeTestSourceDirectory>
-          </configuration>
-          <executions>
-            <execution>
-              <phase>process-sources</phase>
-              <goals>
-                <goal>check</goal>
-              </goals>
-            </execution>
-          </executions>
-        </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>io.takari.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>takari-lifecycle-plugin</artifactId>