diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5bf495e5..ab55b0f2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
       <artifactId>plexus-component-annotations</artifactId>
       <version>2.1.1</version>
       <optional>true</optional>
-	</dependency>
+	  </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
@@ -162,11 +162,22 @@
       <version>0.13.1</version>
     </dependency>
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-testing</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-testing-harness</artifactId>
-      <version>2.1</version>
+      <version>3.3.0</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
+          <artifactId>plexus-container-default</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
@@ -195,8 +206,7 @@
   </dependencies>
 
   <properties>
-    <mavenVersion>3.0</mavenVersion>
-
+    <mavenVersion>3.2.5</mavenVersion>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
     <project.build.outputTimestamp>2022-01-18T09:14:02Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
   </properties>
@@ -213,21 +223,6 @@
             <detectOfflineLinks>false</detectOfflineLinks>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
-        <plugin>
-          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-          <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>3.6.4</version>
-          <configuration>
-            <goalPrefix>exec</goalPrefix>
-            <skipErrorNoDescriptorsFound>true</skipErrorNoDescriptorsFound>
-          </configuration>
-          <executions>
-            <execution>
-              <id>default-descriptor</id>
-              <phase>process-classes</phase>
-            </execution>
-          </executions>
-        </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/mojo/exec/ExecJavaMojoTest.java b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/mojo/exec/ExecJavaMojoTest.java
index da0346d1..be926498 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/mojo/exec/ExecJavaMojoTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/mojo/exec/ExecJavaMojoTest.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 
 import org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession;
 import org.apache.maven.monitor.logging.DefaultLog;
@@ -33,13 +32,12 @@
 import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
 import org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuilder;
 import org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingRequest;
-import org.apache.maven.repository.internal.MavenRepositorySystemSession;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.logging.Logger;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.logging.console.ConsoleLogger;
-import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringOutputStream;
+import org.eclipse.aether.DefaultRepositorySystemSession;
+import org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystemSession;
 import org.mockito.Mock;
 import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
-import org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.SimpleLocalRepositoryManager;
 
 /**
  * @author Jerome Lacoste
@@ -341,8 +339,7 @@ private void setUpProject( File pomFile, AbstractMojo mojo )
         
         ProjectBuildingRequest buildingRequest = mock( ProjectBuildingRequest.class );
         when( session.getProjectBuildingRequest() ).thenReturn( buildingRequest );
-        MavenRepositorySystemSession repositorySession = new MavenRepositorySystemSession();
-        repositorySession.setLocalRepositoryManager( new SimpleLocalRepositoryManager( LOCAL_REPO ) );
+        RepositorySystemSession repositorySession = new DefaultRepositorySystemSession();
         when( buildingRequest.getRepositorySession() ).thenReturn( repositorySession );
         
         ProjectBuilder builder = lookup( ProjectBuilder.class );
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/mojo/exec/ExecMojoTest.java b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/mojo/exec/ExecMojoTest.java
index e588c0af..66ec7c4d 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/mojo/exec/ExecMojoTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/mojo/exec/ExecMojoTest.java
@@ -35,13 +35,11 @@
 import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
 import org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuilder;
 import org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingRequest;
-import org.apache.maven.repository.internal.MavenRepositorySystemSession;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.logging.Logger;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.logging.console.ConsoleLogger;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringOutputStream;
 import org.mockito.Mock;
 import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
-import org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.SimpleLocalRepositoryManager;
 
 /**
  * @author Jerome Lacoste
@@ -250,10 +248,7 @@ private void setUpProject( File pomFile, ExecMojo mojo )
         
         ProjectBuildingRequest buildingRequest = mock( ProjectBuildingRequest.class );
         when( session.getProjectBuildingRequest() ).thenReturn( buildingRequest );
-        MavenRepositorySystemSession repositorySession = new MavenRepositorySystemSession();
-        repositorySession.setLocalRepositoryManager( new SimpleLocalRepositoryManager( LOCAL_REPO ) );
-        when( buildingRequest.getRepositorySession() ).thenReturn( repositorySession );
-        
+
         ProjectBuilder builder = lookup( ProjectBuilder.class );
 
         mojo.setBasedir( File.createTempFile( "mvn-temp", "txt" ).getParentFile() );