diff --git a/dependency-check-ant/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/dependency-check-ant/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2427e9d73..000000000
--- a/dependency-check-ant/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-
-<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
-     "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.0//EN"
-     "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_0.dtd">
-
-<suppressions>
-    <suppress checks=".*" files=".*[\\/]package-info\.java" />
-</suppressions>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dependency-check-ant/pom.xml b/dependency-check-ant/pom.xml
index 3349b0b34..8a47f278c 100644
--- a/dependency-check-ant/pom.xml
+++ b/dependency-check-ant/pom.xml
@@ -398,9 +398,9 @@ Copyright (c) 2013 - Jeremy Long. All Rights Reserved.
                             <version>2.11</version>
                             <configuration>
                                 <enableRulesSummary>false</enableRulesSummary>
-                                <configLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-checks.xml</configLocation>
-                                <headerLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-header.txt</headerLocation>
-                                <suppressionsLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
+                                <configLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-checks.xml</configLocation>
+                                <headerLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-header.txt</headerLocation>
+                                <suppressionsLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
                                 <suppressionsFileExpression>checkstyle.suppressions.file</suppressionsFileExpression>
                             </configuration>
                         </plugin>
diff --git a/dependency-check-cli/config/checkstyle-checks.xml b/dependency-check-cli/config/checkstyle-checks.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f316c27a..000000000
--- a/dependency-check-cli/config/checkstyle-checks.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,223 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-          "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-          "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-
-<module name="Checker">
-  <!--
-      If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
-      names will be relative to the specified directory. See
-      http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
-
-      <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
-  -->
-
-  <property name="severity" value="error"/>
-
-  <module name="SuppressionFilter">
-    <property name="file" value="${checkstyle.suppressions.file}"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="JavadocPackage">
-    <property name="allowLegacy" value="false"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="Translation">
-    <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-    <property name="eachLine" value="false"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="FileLength">
-    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile">
-  <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-  <property name="lineSeparator" value="lf"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="RegexpHeader">
-    <property name="headerFile" value="${checkstyle.header.file}"/>
-    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-    <property name="id" value="header"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="RegexpSingleline">
-    <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
-    <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
-    <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="TreeWalker">
-    <property name="tabWidth" value="4"/>
-
-    <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-    <module name="ConstantName"/>
-    <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
-    <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
-    <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
-    <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
-
-    <!-- module name="IllegalCatch"/ -->
-    <!--module name="ImportControl">
-      <property name="file" value="${checkstyle.importcontrol.file}"/>
-    </module-->
-    <module name="IllegalImport"/>
-    <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
-    <module name="IllegalThrows"/>
-    <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
-    <module name="JavadocType">
-      <property name="authorFormat" value="\S"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="JavadocMethod">
-      <property name="allowUndeclaredRTE" value="true"/>
-      <property name="allowThrowsTagsForSubclasses" value="true"/>
-      <property name="allowMissingPropertyJavadoc" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
-    <module name="JavadocStyle">
-      <property name="scope" value="public"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="LeftCurly">
-      <property name="option" value="eol"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="CLASS_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="CTOR_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="INTERFACE_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_CATCH"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_DO"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_ELSE"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_FINALLY"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_FOR"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_IF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_SWITCH"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_SYNCHRONIZED"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_TRY"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_WHILE"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="OuterTypeNumber"/>
-    <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="ignorePattern" value="^ *\* *[^ ]+$"/>
-    <property name="max" value="150"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="MethodCount">
-      <property name="maxTotal" value="40"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
-    <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
-    <module name="MemberName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="MethodLength">
-        <property name="max" value="160"/>
-        <property name="countEmpty" value="false"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="MethodName"/>
-    <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-    <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-    <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter">
-      <property name="tokens" value="ARRAY_INIT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BNOT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="DEC"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="INC"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LNOT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="UNARY_MINUS"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="UNARY_PLUS"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
-      <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-      <property name="allowLineBreaks" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
-    <module name="OperatorWrap">
-      <property name="tokens" value="ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="DIV_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="PLUS_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="MINUS_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="STAR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="MOD_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="SR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BSR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="SL_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BXOR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BOR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BAND_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="option" value="eol"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="PackageName"/>
-    <module name="ParameterName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="ParameterNumber">
-      <property name="id" value="paramNum"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="ParenPad"/>
-    <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
-    <module name="RedundantImport"/>
-    <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
-    <module name="RightCurly">
-      <property name="option" value="same"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
-    <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
-    <module name="StaticVariableName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="TypeName"/>
-    <module name="UnusedImports"/>
-    <module name="UpperEll"/>
-    <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
-    <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
-    <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
-    <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
-    <module name="FinalClass"/>
-    <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-    <!--module name="MagicNumber"/-->
-    <!--module name="Indentation">
-      <property name="basicOffset" value="4"/>
-      <property name="braceAdjustment" value="0"/>
-      <property name="caseIndent" value="0"/>
-    </module-->
-    <module name="ArrayTrailingComma"/>
-    <module name="FinalLocalVariable"/>
-    <module name="EqualsAvoidNull"/>
-    <module name="ParameterAssignment"/>
-
-    <!-- Generates quite a few errors -->
-    <module name="CyclomaticComplexity">
-      <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="NestedForDepth">
-      <property name="max" value="2"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="NestedIfDepth">
-      <property name="max" value="4"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="NestedTryDepth">
-        <property name="max" value="2"/>
-    </module>
-    <!--module name="ExplicitInitialization"/-->
-    <module name="AnnotationUseStyle"/>
-    <module name="MissingDeprecated"/>
-    <module name="MissingOverride">
-      <property name="javaFiveCompatibility" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="PackageAnnotation"/>
-    <module name="SuppressWarnings"/>
-    <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-    <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
-  </module>
-</module>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dependency-check-cli/config/checkstyle-header.txt b/dependency-check-cli/config/checkstyle-header.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index bc95a5800..000000000
--- a/dependency-check-cli/config/checkstyle-header.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-^/\*\s*$
-^ \* This file is part of dependency-check-cli\.\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2\.0 \(the "License"\);\s*$
-^ \* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.\s*$
-^ \* You may obtain a copy of the License at\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \*\s*http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2\.0\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\s*$
-^ \* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\s*$
-^ \* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied\.\s*$
-^ \* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\s*$
-^ \* limitations under the License\.\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Copyright \(c\) 201[234] (Jeremy Long|Steve Springett)\. All Rights Reserved\.\s*$
-^ \*/\s*$
-^package
diff --git a/dependency-check-cli/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/dependency-check-cli/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2427e9d73..000000000
--- a/dependency-check-cli/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-
-<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
-     "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.0//EN"
-     "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_0.dtd">
-
-<suppressions>
-    <suppress checks=".*" files=".*[\\/]package-info\.java" />
-</suppressions>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dependency-check-cli/pom.xml b/dependency-check-cli/pom.xml
index 59f69e1d9..02f567dcc 100644
--- a/dependency-check-cli/pom.xml
+++ b/dependency-check-cli/pom.xml
@@ -248,9 +248,9 @@ Copyright (c) 2012 - Jeremy Long. All Rights Reserved.
                             <version>2.11</version>
                             <configuration>
                                 <enableRulesSummary>false</enableRulesSummary>
-                                <configLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-checks.xml</configLocation>
-                                <headerLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-header.txt</headerLocation>
-                                <suppressionsLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
+                                <configLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-checks.xml</configLocation>
+                                <headerLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-header.txt</headerLocation>
+                                <suppressionsLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
                                 <suppressionsFileExpression>checkstyle.suppressions.file</suppressionsFileExpression>
                             </configuration>
                         </plugin>
diff --git a/dependency-check-core/config/checkstyle-checks.xml b/dependency-check-core/config/checkstyle-checks.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f316c27a..000000000
--- a/dependency-check-core/config/checkstyle-checks.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,223 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-          "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-          "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-
-<module name="Checker">
-  <!--
-      If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
-      names will be relative to the specified directory. See
-      http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
-
-      <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
-  -->
-
-  <property name="severity" value="error"/>
-
-  <module name="SuppressionFilter">
-    <property name="file" value="${checkstyle.suppressions.file}"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="JavadocPackage">
-    <property name="allowLegacy" value="false"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="Translation">
-    <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-    <property name="eachLine" value="false"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="FileLength">
-    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile">
-  <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-  <property name="lineSeparator" value="lf"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="RegexpHeader">
-    <property name="headerFile" value="${checkstyle.header.file}"/>
-    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-    <property name="id" value="header"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="RegexpSingleline">
-    <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
-    <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
-    <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="TreeWalker">
-    <property name="tabWidth" value="4"/>
-
-    <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-    <module name="ConstantName"/>
-    <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
-    <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
-    <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
-    <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
-
-    <!-- module name="IllegalCatch"/ -->
-    <!--module name="ImportControl">
-      <property name="file" value="${checkstyle.importcontrol.file}"/>
-    </module-->
-    <module name="IllegalImport"/>
-    <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
-    <module name="IllegalThrows"/>
-    <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
-    <module name="JavadocType">
-      <property name="authorFormat" value="\S"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="JavadocMethod">
-      <property name="allowUndeclaredRTE" value="true"/>
-      <property name="allowThrowsTagsForSubclasses" value="true"/>
-      <property name="allowMissingPropertyJavadoc" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
-    <module name="JavadocStyle">
-      <property name="scope" value="public"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="LeftCurly">
-      <property name="option" value="eol"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="CLASS_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="CTOR_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="INTERFACE_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_CATCH"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_DO"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_ELSE"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_FINALLY"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_FOR"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_IF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_SWITCH"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_SYNCHRONIZED"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_TRY"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_WHILE"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="OuterTypeNumber"/>
-    <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="ignorePattern" value="^ *\* *[^ ]+$"/>
-    <property name="max" value="150"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="MethodCount">
-      <property name="maxTotal" value="40"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
-    <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
-    <module name="MemberName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="MethodLength">
-        <property name="max" value="160"/>
-        <property name="countEmpty" value="false"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="MethodName"/>
-    <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-    <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-    <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter">
-      <property name="tokens" value="ARRAY_INIT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BNOT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="DEC"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="INC"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LNOT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="UNARY_MINUS"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="UNARY_PLUS"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
-      <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-      <property name="allowLineBreaks" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
-    <module name="OperatorWrap">
-      <property name="tokens" value="ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="DIV_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="PLUS_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="MINUS_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="STAR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="MOD_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="SR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BSR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="SL_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BXOR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BOR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BAND_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="option" value="eol"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="PackageName"/>
-    <module name="ParameterName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="ParameterNumber">
-      <property name="id" value="paramNum"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="ParenPad"/>
-    <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
-    <module name="RedundantImport"/>
-    <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
-    <module name="RightCurly">
-      <property name="option" value="same"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
-    <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
-    <module name="StaticVariableName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="TypeName"/>
-    <module name="UnusedImports"/>
-    <module name="UpperEll"/>
-    <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
-    <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
-    <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
-    <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
-    <module name="FinalClass"/>
-    <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-    <!--module name="MagicNumber"/-->
-    <!--module name="Indentation">
-      <property name="basicOffset" value="4"/>
-      <property name="braceAdjustment" value="0"/>
-      <property name="caseIndent" value="0"/>
-    </module-->
-    <module name="ArrayTrailingComma"/>
-    <module name="FinalLocalVariable"/>
-    <module name="EqualsAvoidNull"/>
-    <module name="ParameterAssignment"/>
-
-    <!-- Generates quite a few errors -->
-    <module name="CyclomaticComplexity">
-      <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="NestedForDepth">
-      <property name="max" value="2"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="NestedIfDepth">
-      <property name="max" value="4"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="NestedTryDepth">
-        <property name="max" value="2"/>
-    </module>
-    <!--module name="ExplicitInitialization"/-->
-    <module name="AnnotationUseStyle"/>
-    <module name="MissingDeprecated"/>
-    <module name="MissingOverride">
-      <property name="javaFiveCompatibility" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="PackageAnnotation"/>
-    <module name="SuppressWarnings"/>
-    <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-    <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
-  </module>
-</module>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dependency-check-core/config/checkstyle-header.txt b/dependency-check-core/config/checkstyle-header.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6cda6c2c4..000000000
--- a/dependency-check-core/config/checkstyle-header.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-^/\*\s*$
-^ \* This file is part of dependency-check-core\.\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2\.0 \(the "License"\);\s*$
-^ \* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.\s*$
-^ \* You may obtain a copy of the License at\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \*\s*http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2\.0\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\s*$
-^ \* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\s*$
-^ \* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied\.\s*$
-^ \* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\s*$
-^ \* limitations under the License\.\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Copyright \(c\) 201[234] (Jeremy Long|Steve Springett)\. All Rights Reserved\.\s*$
-^ \*/\s*$
-^package
diff --git a/dependency-check-core/pom.xml b/dependency-check-core/pom.xml
index 27b3b9d1c..748d78a81 100644
--- a/dependency-check-core/pom.xml
+++ b/dependency-check-core/pom.xml
@@ -348,9 +348,9 @@ Copyright (c) 2012 Jeremy Long. All Rights Reserved.
                             <version>2.11</version>
                             <configuration>
                                 <enableRulesSummary>false</enableRulesSummary>
-                                <configLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-checks.xml</configLocation>
-                                <headerLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-header.txt</headerLocation>
-                                <suppressionsLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
+                                <configLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-checks.xml</configLocation>
+                                <headerLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-header.txt</headerLocation>
+                                <suppressionsLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
                                 <suppressionsFileExpression>checkstyle.suppressions.file</suppressionsFileExpression>
                             </configuration>
                         </plugin>
diff --git a/dependency-check-maven/config/checkstyle-checks.xml b/dependency-check-maven/config/checkstyle-checks.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f316c27a..000000000
--- a/dependency-check-maven/config/checkstyle-checks.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,223 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-          "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-          "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-
-<module name="Checker">
-  <!--
-      If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
-      names will be relative to the specified directory. See
-      http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
-
-      <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
-  -->
-
-  <property name="severity" value="error"/>
-
-  <module name="SuppressionFilter">
-    <property name="file" value="${checkstyle.suppressions.file}"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="JavadocPackage">
-    <property name="allowLegacy" value="false"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="Translation">
-    <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-    <property name="eachLine" value="false"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="FileLength">
-    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile">
-  <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-  <property name="lineSeparator" value="lf"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="RegexpHeader">
-    <property name="headerFile" value="${checkstyle.header.file}"/>
-    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
-    <property name="id" value="header"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="RegexpSingleline">
-    <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
-    <property name="minimum" value="0"/>
-    <property name="maximum" value="0"/>
-  </module>
-
-  <module name="TreeWalker">
-    <property name="tabWidth" value="4"/>
-
-    <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-    <module name="ConstantName"/>
-    <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
-    <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
-    <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
-    <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
-
-    <!-- module name="IllegalCatch"/ -->
-    <!--module name="ImportControl">
-      <property name="file" value="${checkstyle.importcontrol.file}"/>
-    </module-->
-    <module name="IllegalImport"/>
-    <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
-    <module name="IllegalThrows"/>
-    <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
-    <module name="JavadocType">
-      <property name="authorFormat" value="\S"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="JavadocMethod">
-      <property name="allowUndeclaredRTE" value="true"/>
-      <property name="allowThrowsTagsForSubclasses" value="true"/>
-      <property name="allowMissingPropertyJavadoc" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
-    <module name="JavadocStyle">
-      <property name="scope" value="public"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="LeftCurly">
-      <property name="option" value="eol"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="CLASS_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="CTOR_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="INTERFACE_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_DEF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_CATCH"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_DO"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_ELSE"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_FINALLY"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_FOR"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_IF"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_SWITCH"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_SYNCHRONIZED"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_TRY"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_WHILE"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="OuterTypeNumber"/>
-    <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="ignorePattern" value="^ *\* *[^ ]+$"/>
-    <property name="max" value="150"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="MethodCount">
-      <property name="maxTotal" value="40"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
-    <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
-    <module name="MemberName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="MethodLength">
-        <property name="max" value="160"/>
-        <property name="countEmpty" value="false"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="MethodName"/>
-    <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-    <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-    <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter">
-      <property name="tokens" value="ARRAY_INIT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BNOT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="DEC"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="INC"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="LNOT"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="UNARY_MINUS"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="UNARY_PLUS"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
-    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
-      <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-      <property name="allowLineBreaks" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
-    <module name="OperatorWrap">
-      <property name="tokens" value="ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="DIV_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="PLUS_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="MINUS_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="STAR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="MOD_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="SR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BSR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="SL_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BXOR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BOR_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="tokens" value="BAND_ASSIGN"/>
-      <property name="option" value="eol"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="PackageName"/>
-    <module name="ParameterName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="ParameterNumber">
-      <property name="id" value="paramNum"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="ParenPad"/>
-    <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
-    <module name="RedundantImport"/>
-    <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
-    <module name="RightCurly">
-      <property name="option" value="same"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
-    <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
-    <module name="StaticVariableName">
-      <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="TypeName"/>
-    <module name="UnusedImports"/>
-    <module name="UpperEll"/>
-    <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
-    <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
-    <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
-    <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
-    <module name="FinalClass"/>
-    <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-    <!--module name="MagicNumber"/-->
-    <!--module name="Indentation">
-      <property name="basicOffset" value="4"/>
-      <property name="braceAdjustment" value="0"/>
-      <property name="caseIndent" value="0"/>
-    </module-->
-    <module name="ArrayTrailingComma"/>
-    <module name="FinalLocalVariable"/>
-    <module name="EqualsAvoidNull"/>
-    <module name="ParameterAssignment"/>
-
-    <!-- Generates quite a few errors -->
-    <module name="CyclomaticComplexity">
-      <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
-    </module>
-
-    <module name="NestedForDepth">
-      <property name="max" value="2"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="NestedIfDepth">
-      <property name="max" value="4"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="NestedTryDepth">
-        <property name="max" value="2"/>
-    </module>
-    <!--module name="ExplicitInitialization"/-->
-    <module name="AnnotationUseStyle"/>
-    <module name="MissingDeprecated"/>
-    <module name="MissingOverride">
-      <property name="javaFiveCompatibility" value="true"/>
-    </module>
-    <module name="PackageAnnotation"/>
-    <module name="SuppressWarnings"/>
-    <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-    <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
-  </module>
-</module>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dependency-check-maven/config/checkstyle-header.txt b/dependency-check-maven/config/checkstyle-header.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 514e8798c..000000000
--- a/dependency-check-maven/config/checkstyle-header.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-^/\*\s*$
-^ \* This file is part of dependency-check-maven\.\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2\.0 \(the "License"\);\s*$
-^ \* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.\s*$
-^ \* You may obtain a copy of the License at\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \*\s*http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2\.0\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\s*$
-^ \* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\s*$
-^ \* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied\.\s*$
-^ \* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\s*$
-^ \* limitations under the License\.\s*$
-^ \*\s*$
-^ \* Copyright \(c\) 201[234] (Jeremy Long|Steve Springett)\. All Rights Reserved\.\s*$
-^ \*/\s*$
-^package
diff --git a/dependency-check-maven/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/dependency-check-maven/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8faf40832..000000000
--- a/dependency-check-maven/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-
-<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
-     "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.0//EN"
-     "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_0.dtd">
-
-<suppressions>
-    <suppress checks=".*" files=".*[\\/]package-info\.java" />
-    <suppress checks=".*" files=".*org[\\/]owasp[\\/]dependencycheck[\\/maven\\/]HelpMojo.java" />
-</suppressions>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dependency-check-maven/pom.xml b/dependency-check-maven/pom.xml
index 75512d518..3b6e83e40 100644
--- a/dependency-check-maven/pom.xml
+++ b/dependency-check-maven/pom.xml
@@ -224,9 +224,9 @@ Copyright (c) 2013 Jeremy Long. All Rights Reserved.
                             <version>2.11</version>
                             <configuration>
                                 <enableRulesSummary>false</enableRulesSummary>
-                                <configLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-checks.xml</configLocation>
-                                <headerLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-header.txt</headerLocation>
-                                <suppressionsLocation>${basedir}/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
+                                <configLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-checks.xml</configLocation>
+                                <headerLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-header.txt</headerLocation>
+                                <suppressionsLocation>${basedir}/../src/main/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
                                 <suppressionsFileExpression>checkstyle.suppressions.file</suppressionsFileExpression>
                             </configuration>
                         </plugin>
diff --git a/dependency-check-ant/config/checkstyle-checks.xml b/src/main/config/checkstyle-checks.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from dependency-check-ant/config/checkstyle-checks.xml
rename to src/main/config/checkstyle-checks.xml
diff --git a/dependency-check-ant/config/checkstyle-header.txt b/src/main/config/checkstyle-header.txt
similarity index 91%
rename from dependency-check-ant/config/checkstyle-header.txt
rename to src/main/config/checkstyle-header.txt
index a51628ef2..042e0d16c 100644
--- a/dependency-check-ant/config/checkstyle-header.txt
+++ b/src/main/config/checkstyle-header.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ^/\*\s*$
-^ \* This file is part of dependency-check-ant\.\s*$
+^ \* This file is part of dependency-check-(ant|core|cli|maven)\.\s*$
 ^ \*\s*$
 ^ \* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2\.0 \(the "License"\);\s*$
 ^ \* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.\s*$
diff --git a/dependency-check-core/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/src/main/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from dependency-check-core/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
rename to src/main/config/checkstyle-suppressions.xml