diff --git a/all/pom.xml b/all/pom.xml
index 4bdf307389..22f1fa5a25 100644
--- a/all/pom.xml
+++ b/all/pom.xml
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
                       </patternset>
                     </unzip>
                     <concat destfile="${project.build.outputDirectory}/META-INF/${project.groupId}.versions.properties" append="true">
-                            <path path="${dependencyVersionsDir}/META-INF/${project.groupId}.versions.properties" />
+                      <path path="${dependencyVersionsDir}/META-INF/${project.groupId}.versions.properties" />
                     </concat>
                   </sequential>
                 </for>
@@ -377,14 +377,14 @@
             <goals>
               <goal>jar</goal>
             </goals>
-        <configuration>
-          <archive>
-            <manifest>
-              <addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
-            </manifest>
-            <index>true</index>
-          </archive>
-        </configuration>
+            <configuration>
+              <archive>
+                <manifest>
+                  <addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
+                </manifest>
+                <index>true</index>
+              </archive>
+            </configuration>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
diff --git a/microbench/pom.xml b/microbench/pom.xml
index dec347d10e..c680435635 100644
--- a/microbench/pom.xml
+++ b/microbench/pom.xml
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@
             <exclude>**/AbstractMicrobenchmark.java</exclude>
             <exclude>**/*$*.class</exclude>
           </excludes>
-            <systemPropertyVariables>
-                <perfReportDir>${project.build.directory}/reports/performance/</perfReportDir>
-            </systemPropertyVariables>
+          <systemPropertyVariables>
+            <perfReportDir>${project.build.directory}/reports/performance/</perfReportDir>
+          </systemPropertyVariables>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5fc8c26a92..858d306145 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
         <artifactId>jboss-marshalling-serial</artifactId>
         <version>${jboss.marshalling.version}</version>
         <scope>test</scope>
-       </dependency>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.jboss.marshalling</groupId>
         <artifactId>jboss-marshalling-river</artifactId>
@@ -573,12 +573,12 @@
         <artifactId>animal-sniffer-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>1.9</version>
         <dependencies>
-            <!-- Upgrade ASM and support Java 8 bytecode -->
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
-                <artifactId>asm-all</artifactId>
-                <version>5.0.3</version>
-            </dependency>
+          <!-- Upgrade ASM and support Java 8 bytecode -->
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
+            <artifactId>asm-all</artifactId>
+            <version>5.0.3</version>
+          </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <configuration>
           <signature>
@@ -659,6 +659,31 @@
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>xml-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0.1</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>check-style</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>check-format</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <phase>validate</phase>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+        <configuration>
+          <formatFileSets>
+            <formatFileSet>
+              <directory>${project.basedir}</directory>
+              <includes>
+                <include>**/pom.xml</include>
+              </includes>
+            </formatFileSet>
+          </formatFileSets>
+          <useDefaultFormatFileSet>false</useDefaultFormatFileSet>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
       <!-- Download the npn-boot.jar in advance to add it to the boot classpath. -->
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -681,8 +706,8 @@
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
           <includes>
-             <include>**/*Test*.java</include>
-             <include>**/*Benchmark*.java</include>
+            <include>**/*Test*.java</include>
+            <include>**/*Benchmark*.java</include>
           </includes>
           <excludes>
             <exclude>**/Abstract*</exclude>
diff --git a/testsuite-osgi/pom.xml b/testsuite-osgi/pom.xml
index f9220380c1..4b07aec11a 100644
--- a/testsuite-osgi/pom.xml
+++ b/testsuite-osgi/pom.xml
@@ -161,12 +161,12 @@
         <groupId>org.ops4j.pax.exam</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-paxexam-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
-           <execution>
-             <id>generate-config</id>
-             <goals>
-               <goal>generate-depends-file</goal>
-             </goals>
-           </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <id>generate-config</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>generate-depends-file</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
diff --git a/transport-sctp/pom.xml b/transport-sctp/pom.xml
index 0519e08625..752a2dc86d 100644
--- a/transport-sctp/pom.xml
+++ b/transport-sctp/pom.xml
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@
       <artifactId>netty-buffer</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-          <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-          <artifactId>netty-codec</artifactId>
-          <version>${project.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+      <artifactId>netty-codec</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
       <artifactId>netty-transport</artifactId>