diff --git a/dev-java/xml-commons/Manifest b/dev-java/xml-commons/Manifest
index bfdb9cf256871..148363ba5599e 100644
--- a/dev-java/xml-commons/Manifest
+++ b/dev-java/xml-commons/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST xml-commons-1.0.b2.tar.gz 1821110 SHA256 22b9e53919e4aa15fdd074a515c8a8dc9823a91d72eb91fbb3e1bd8cfc488375 SHA512 72e4df0776e96514bf787b958f80309bd9e4ea47cde9b3fa157db08c921e7e7607899b1b0d43b16cf34e1c055812d052b3b873b13246ef693ebb7c74fdcfda94 WHIRLPOOL 2e73c513fa3f72823c001f8676b925ce87b0759da91c848a55f2245738245e5f557aaff3fdc14b0b8aef5de8122c97fd3f1d856738cd4112d315c38c8b99caf4
 DIST xml-commons-1.4.01.tar.gz 358779 SHA256 d34bd88dc89c5c1ed2545ec5c61e4606fc28beb200a6fecf8c3ed17694181866 SHA512 9e8f77f7dc65a492548fa2313b49855ad0880fe663acdac865a1b235ea3bc0ba347c4fad3ca16f0c92a60df42a0a802a74525b56ea58dc575cd2d94013561868 WHIRLPOOL 58cd1152ad822562b15f3e1e62559137dbeabb13a1635c33eba0c162974c799384cf937859fea06f62ea9b7bfb102e6cbb71489269b4bdae0097c2783e920fc8
diff --git a/dev-java/xml-commons/files/1.0_beta2-jdk15.patch b/dev-java/xml-commons/files/1.0_beta2-jdk15.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6080e14e72328..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/xml-commons/files/1.0_beta2-jdk15.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-diff -uprN xml-commons-1.0.b2/java/external/build.xml java/external/build.xml
---- xml-commons-1.0.b2/java/external/build.xml	2002-02-06 16:52:59.000000000 +0100
-+++ java/external/build.xml	2005-02-06 20:42:52.645987384 +0100
-@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
- 
-   <target name="compile" depends="prepare"
-     description="Compile all classes">
--   <javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${build.classes.dir}" />
-+   <javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${build.classes.dir}" source="1.4" target="1.4" />
-   </target>
- 
-   <target name="jar" depends="compile"
-diff -uprN xml-commons-1.0.b2/java/resolver.xml java/resolver.xml
---- xml-commons-1.0.b2/java/resolver.xml	2002-02-06 16:52:46.000000000 +0100
-+++ java/resolver.xml	2005-02-06 20:45:57.003960712 +0100
-@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Build file for org.apache.xml.resolver. 
- 
-   <target name="compile" depends="init"
-     description="Compile all classes">
--   <javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${build.classes.dir}">
-+   <javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${build.classes.dir}" source="1.4" target="1.4">
-      <include name="${resolver.subdir}/*.java"/>
-      <include name="${resolver.subdir}/helpers/*.java"/>
-      <include name="${resolver.subdir}/readers/*.java"/>
-diff -uprN xml-commons-1.0.b2/java/which.xml java/which.xml
---- xml-commons-1.0.b2/java/which.xml	2002-02-06 16:52:28.000000000 +0100
-+++ java/which.xml	2005-02-06 20:45:38.379792016 +0100
-@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Build file for org.apache.env.Which serv
-   <target name="compile" depends="init"
-     description="Compile all classes">
-    <javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${build.classes.dir}" 
--       includes="${env.subdir}/*.java" />
-+       includes="${env.subdir}/*.java" source="1.4" target="1.4" />
-   </target>
- 
-   <target name="jar" depends="compile"
diff --git a/dev-java/xml-commons/xml-commons-1.0_beta2-r1.ebuild b/dev-java/xml-commons/xml-commons-1.0_beta2-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 6697d7c55890d..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/xml-commons/xml-commons-1.0_beta2-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source"
-
-inherit eutils java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
-
-MY_PV=${PV/_beta/.b}
-MY_P=${PN}-${MY_PV}
-DESCRIPTION="Jakarta project for for XML bindings for java"
-HOMEPAGE="http://xml.apache.org/commons/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://apache/xml/commons/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
-
-# Resolver is under Apache-1.1
-# SAX2 is public-domain
-# DOM documentation is under W3C-document
-# DOM software is under W3C
-# See ${S}/java/external for the license files
-LICENSE="Apache-1.1 public-domain W3C-document W3C"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc64 x86 ~x86-fbsd"
-IUSE=""
-
-DEPEND=">=virtual/jdk-1.4"
-RDEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.4"
-
-S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
-
-src_unpack() {
-	unpack ${A}
-	cd "${S}"
-
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}/${PV}-jdk15.patch"
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	local antflags="jar"
-	use doc && antflags="${antflags} javadocs"
-
-	cd "${S}"/java
-	eant -f resolver.xml ${antflags} || die "XML-Resolver Compile failed"
-	eant -f which.xml ${antflags} || die "XML-Which Compile failed"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	java-pkg_dojar java/build/which.jar
-	java-pkg_dojar java/build/resolver.jar
-	java-pkg_dojar java/external/build/xml-apis.jar
-
-	dodoc README.html || die
-	use doc && java-pkg_dojavadoc java/build/docs/javadocs
-	use source && java-pkg_dosrc java/src/org
-}
diff --git a/dev-java/xml-commons/xml-commons-1.4.01.ebuild b/dev-java/xml-commons/xml-commons-1.4.01.ebuild
index 6e1c2b9bb0bfa..ae85218476604 100644
--- a/dev-java/xml-commons/xml-commons-1.4.01.ebuild
+++ b/dev-java/xml-commons/xml-commons-1.4.01.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$