o removing many old embedder tests that are performing what is now done far better by the underlying components o remove ties to the Configuration class in the populator which means it can be moved back to the core
maven/components/trunk/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java
maven/components/trunk/maven-embedder/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/embedder/project/