diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 50345b3f8f..61eef067cb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -172,26 +172,6 @@
           <showDeprecations>true</showDeprecations>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>run-pmd</id>
-            <phase>compile</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>check</goal>
-              <goal>cpd-check</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-        <configuration>
-          <sourceEncoding>UTF-8</sourceEncoding>
-          <targetJdk>1.5</targetJdk>
-          <failOnViolation>false</failOnViolation>
-          <linkXRef>false</linkXRef>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
@@ -200,19 +180,6 @@
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>run-coverage-test</id>
-            <phase>test</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>cobertura</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>