diff --git a/core-java-arrays/src/main/java/com/baeldung/array/looping/LoopDiagonally.java b/core-java-arrays/src/main/java/com/baeldung/array/looping/LoopDiagonally.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..71e2840f45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-arrays/src/main/java/com/baeldung/array/looping/LoopDiagonally.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package com.baeldung.array.looping;
+
+public class LoopDiagonally {
+
+
+    public String loopDiagonally(String[][] twoDArray) {
+
+        int length = twoDArray.length;
+        int diagonalLines = (length + length) - 1;
+        int itemsInDiagonal = 0;
+        int midPoint = (diagonalLines / 2) + 1;
+        StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();
+
+        for (int i = 1; i <= diagonalLines; i++) {
+
+            StringBuilder items = new StringBuilder();
+            int rowIndex;
+            int columnIndex;
+
+            if (i <= midPoint) {
+                itemsInDiagonal++;
+                for (int j = 0; j < itemsInDiagonal; j++) {
+                    rowIndex = (i - j) - 1;
+                    columnIndex = j;
+                    items.append(twoDArray[rowIndex][columnIndex]);
+                }
+            } else {
+                itemsInDiagonal--;
+                for (int j = 0; j < itemsInDiagonal; j++) {
+                    rowIndex = (length - 1) - j;
+                    columnIndex = (i - length) + j;
+                    items.append(twoDArray[rowIndex][columnIndex]);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (i != diagonalLines) {
+                output.append(items).append(" ");
+            } else {
+                output.append(items);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return output.toString();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core-java-arrays/src/test/java/com/baeldung/array/looping/LoopDiagonallyTest.java b/core-java-arrays/src/test/java/com/baeldung/array/looping/LoopDiagonallyTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..df6079270b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-arrays/src/test/java/com/baeldung/array/looping/LoopDiagonallyTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package com.baeldung.array.looping;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+public class LoopDiagonallyTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void twoArrayIsLoopedDiagonallyAsExpected() {
+
+        LoopDiagonally loopDiagonally = new LoopDiagonally();
+        String[][] twoDArray = {{"a", "b", "c"},
+                                {"d", "e", "f"},
+                                {"g", "h", "i"}};
+
+        String output = loopDiagonally.loopDiagonally(twoDArray);
+        assertEquals("a db gec hf i", output);
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b888994a43..21a42f89d6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1456,7 +1456,6 @@
 				<module>wicket</module>
 
 				<module>xml</module>
-				<module>xmlunit-2</module>
 				<module>xstream</module>
 			</modules>