diff --git a/plexus-component-metadata/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/metadata/merge/Driver.java b/plexus-component-metadata/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/metadata/merge/Driver.java
index 99ba55dd3..e9ed66a3d 100644
--- a/plexus-component-metadata/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/metadata/merge/Driver.java
+++ b/plexus-component-metadata/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/metadata/merge/Driver.java
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@
 public class Driver implements Locator, XMLReader, Attributes
 {
 
+    protected static final String EXTERNAL_GENERAL_ENTITIES_PROPERTY =
+        "http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities";
+
     protected static final String DECLARATION_HANDLER_PROPERTY =
         "http://xml.org/sax/properties/declaration-handler";
 
@@ -200,6 +203,8 @@ public void setFeature (String name, boolean value)
                 }
             } else if(VALIDATION_FEATURE.equals(name)) {
                 pp.setFeature(XmlPullParser.FEATURE_VALIDATION, value);
+            } else if(EXTERNAL_GENERAL_ENTITIES_PROPERTY.equals(name)) {
+                // ignore
             } else {
                 pp.setFeature(name, value);
                 //throw new SAXNotRecognizedException("unrecognized feature "+name);
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 366499fef..04fc66df8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@
   <build>
     <pluginManagement>
       <plugins>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+          <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.7</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <check>false</check>
+            <skip>true</skip>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -126,6 +135,31 @@
             <autoVersionSubmodules>true</autoVersionSubmodules>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>3.0.0</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>3.1.2</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>3.1.2</version>
+          <dependencies>
+            <dependency>
+              <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
+              <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
+              <version>9.2</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+              <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
+              <artifactId>maven-shared-resources</artifactId>
+              <version>4</version>
+            </dependency>
+          </dependencies>
+        </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
     <plugins>