diff --git a/apps/portlet/pom.xml b/apps/portlet/pom.xml
index 12ddb68e2..cbaf4a816 100644
--- a/apps/portlet/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/portlet/pom.xml
@@ -133,10 +133,6 @@
             <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Logging -->
         <dependency>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 2f78ca7fa..91cc5ebd3 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -337,9 +337,9 @@
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>log4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
-            <scope>test</scope>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <optional>true</optional>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -349,6 +349,12 @@
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>mockobjects</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockobjects-jdk1.3</artifactId>
@@ -403,7 +409,7 @@
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- These jars have to be in the compile scope in order to work with apt plugin
-             (struts-annotations) and javadoc (the rest to process xwork sources). Marking 
+             (struts-annotations) and javadoc (the rest to process xwork sources). Marking
              them optional to exclude them from transitive dependency resolution -->
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/plugins/bean-validation/pom.xml b/plugins/bean-validation/pom.xml
index e719642a6..b7318efe8 100644
--- a/plugins/bean-validation/pom.xml
+++ b/plugins/bean-validation/pom.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
-            <version>1.9.2</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9750ef30c..5b33c88ce 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -191,7 +191,11 @@
                     <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
                     <version>2.1.0</version>
                 </plugin>
-
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.10</version>
+                </plugin>
             </plugins>
         </pluginManagement>
         <plugins>
@@ -671,9 +675,14 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-jci-fam</artifactId>
-                <version>1.0</version>
+                <version>1.1</version>
                 <optional>true</optional>
             </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
+                <version>1.9.2</version>
+            </dependency>
 
             <!-- Mocks for unit testing (by Spring) -->
             <dependency>