diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e6141e8..5125567 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ limitations under the License.
     <artifactId>plexus-components</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
     <version>6.5</version>
+    <relativePath/>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>plexus-velocity</artifactId>
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ limitations under the License.
   </distributionManagement>
 
   <properties>
+    <slf4j.version>1.7.25</slf4j.version>
     <project.build.outputTimestamp>2020-01-20T18:52:37Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
   </properties>
 
@@ -55,14 +57,20 @@ limitations under the License.
       <artifactId>plexus-container-default</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
-      <version>3.2.2</version>
+      <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
+      <artifactId>velocity-engine-core</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
-      <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7</version>
+      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+      <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+      <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/ContextClassLoaderResourceLoader.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/ContextClassLoaderResourceLoader.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 5aa2627..0000000
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/ContextClassLoaderResourceLoader.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-package org.codehaus.plexus.velocity;
-
-/*
- * Copyright 2001-2016 Codehaus Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-import java.io.InputStream;
-
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.Resource;
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader;
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ResourceLoader;
-import org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException;
-
-import org.apache.commons.collections.ExtendedProperties;
-
-/**
- *
- * @deprecated use {@link ClasspathResourceLoader}
- *
- */
-@Deprecated
-public class ContextClassLoaderResourceLoader
-    extends ResourceLoader
-{
-    public void init( ExtendedProperties configuration)
-    {
-    }
-
-    public synchronized InputStream getResourceStream( String name )
-        throws ResourceNotFoundException
-    {
-        InputStream result;
-
-        if (name == null || name.length() == 0)
-        {
-            throw new ResourceNotFoundException ("No template name provided");
-        }
-
-        try
-        {
-            ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
-
-            if ( name.startsWith( "/" ) )
-            {
-                name = name.substring( 1 );
-            }
-
-            result = classLoader.getResourceAsStream( name );
-        }
-        catch( Exception fnfe )
-        {
-            throw new ResourceNotFoundException( fnfe.getMessage() );
-        }
-
-        return result;
-    }
-
-    public boolean isSourceModified(Resource resource)
-    {
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    public long getLastModified(Resource resource)
-    {
-        return 0;
-    }
-}
-
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/DefaultVelocityComponent.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/DefaultVelocityComponent.java
index 9d8c2b9..faf2b7e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/DefaultVelocityComponent.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/DefaultVelocityComponent.java
@@ -16,13 +16,10 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-import java.util.Enumeration;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
 import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeServices;
 import org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeConstants;
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.log.LogChute;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.personality.plexus.lifecycle.phase.Initializable;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.personality.plexus.lifecycle.phase.InitializationException;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.logging.AbstractLogEnabled;
@@ -49,7 +46,7 @@
  */
 public class DefaultVelocityComponent
     extends AbstractLogEnabled
-    implements VelocityComponent, Initializable, LogChute
+    implements VelocityComponent, Initializable
 {
     private VelocityEngine engine;
 
@@ -63,24 +60,11 @@ public void initialize()
         throws InitializationException
     {
         engine = new VelocityEngine();
-
         // avoid "unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm' in any resource loader."
         engine.setProperty( RuntimeConstants.VM_LIBRARY, "" );
-
-        engine.setProperty( RuntimeConstants.RUNTIME_LOG_LOGSYSTEM, this );
-
         if ( properties != null )
         {
-            for ( Enumeration<?> e = properties.propertyNames(); e.hasMoreElements(); )
-            {
-                String key = e.nextElement().toString();
-
-                String value = properties.getProperty( key );
-
-                engine.setProperty( key, value );
-
-                getLogger().debug( "Setting property: " + key + " => '" + value + "'." );
-            }
+            engine.setProperties( properties );
         }
 
         try
@@ -93,86 +77,9 @@ public void initialize()
         }
     }
 
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    //
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
     public VelocityEngine getEngine()
     {
         return engine;
     }
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    //
-    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-    private RuntimeServices runtimeServices;
 
-    public void init( RuntimeServices runtimeServices )
-    {
-        this.runtimeServices = runtimeServices;
-    }
-
-    public void log(int level, String message)
-    {
-        switch ( level )
-        {
-            case LogChute.WARN_ID:
-                getLogger().warn( message );
-                break;
-            case LogChute.INFO_ID:
-                getLogger().info( message );
-                break;
-            case LogChute.DEBUG_ID:
-            case LogChute.TRACE_ID:
-                getLogger().debug( message );
-                break;
-            case LogChute.ERROR_ID:
-                getLogger().error( message );
-                break;
-            default:
-                getLogger().debug( message );
-                break;
-        }
-    }
-
-    public void log(int level, String message, Throwable t)
-    {
-        switch ( level )
-        {
-            case LogChute.WARN_ID:
-                getLogger().warn( message, t );
-                break;
-            case LogChute.INFO_ID:
-                getLogger().info( message, t );
-                break;
-            case LogChute.DEBUG_ID:
-            case LogChute.TRACE_ID:
-                getLogger().debug( message, t );
-                break;
-            case LogChute.ERROR_ID:
-                getLogger().error( message, t );
-                break;
-            default:
-                getLogger().debug( message, t );
-                break;
-        }
-    }
-
-    public boolean isLevelEnabled( int level )
-    {
-         switch ( level )
-        {
-            case LogChute.WARN_ID:
-                return getLogger().isWarnEnabled();
-            case LogChute.INFO_ID:
-                return getLogger().isInfoEnabled();
-            case LogChute.DEBUG_ID:
-            case LogChute.TRACE_ID:
-                return getLogger().isDebugEnabled();
-            case LogChute.ERROR_ID:
-                return getLogger().isErrorEnabled();
-            default:
-                return getLogger().isDebugEnabled();
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/SiteResourceLoader.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/SiteResourceLoader.java
deleted file mode 100644
index d2c2f7b..0000000
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/velocity/SiteResourceLoader.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-package org.codehaus.plexus.velocity;
-
-/*
- * Copyright 2001-2016 Codehaus Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-import org.apache.commons.collections.ExtendedProperties;
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader;
-import org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ResourceLoader;
-import org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException;
-
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
-
-/**
- * Allows you to dynamically add resources that you want to be processed by Velocity. For
- * example if you want to generate a site and pull in some random files to be interpolated
- * by Velocity you can use this resource loader.
- *
- * @author Jason van Zyl
- * @deprecated use {@link FileResourceLoader}
- */
-@Deprecated
-public class SiteResourceLoader
-    extends ResourceLoader
-{
-    private static String resource;
-
-    private static File resourceDir;
-
-    public static void setResource( String staticResource )
-    {
-        resource = staticResource;
-        resourceDir = new File( resource ).getParentFile();
-    }
-
-    public void init( ExtendedProperties p )
-    {
-    }
-
-    public InputStream getResourceStream( String name )
-        throws ResourceNotFoundException
-    {
-        if ( resource != null )
-        {
-            try
-            {
-                File f = new File( resourceDir, name );
-                if ( f.exists() )
-                {
-                    return new FileInputStream( f );
-                }
-                else
-                {
-                    return new FileInputStream( resource );
-                }
-            }
-            catch ( FileNotFoundException e )
-            {
-                throw new ResourceNotFoundException( "Cannot find resource, make sure you set the right resource." );
-            }
-        }
-
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    public boolean isSourceModified( org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.Resource resource )
-    {
-        return false;  //To change body of implemented methods use File | Settings | File Templates.
-    }
-
-    public long getLastModified( org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.Resource resource )
-    {
-        return 0;
-    }
-}
-
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index 03cbe62..460f9d9 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
         <p>A typical use:
         <source>
 VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
-VelocityComponent velocityComponent =  (DefaultVelocityComponent) lookup( VelocityComponent.ROLE );
+VelocityComponent velocityComponent =  (VelocityComponent) lookup( VelocityComponent.ROLE );
 Template template = velocityComponent.getEngine().getTemplate( "path to your template" );
 StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
 template.merge( context, writer );</source>
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ template.merge( context, writer );</source>
       </configuration>
     </component>]]></source>
         </p>
-        <p>See <a href="http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.7/developer-guide.html#Velocity_Configuration_Keys_and_Values">Velocity Configuration Keys and Values</a>
+        <p>See <a href="https://velocity.apache.org/engine/2.0/configuration.html">Velocity Configuration</a>
         reference documentation for details on available configurations.</p>
       </subsection>
     </section>
diff --git a/src/test/log4j.properties b/src/test/log4j.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 6eb4456..0000000
--- a/src/test/log4j.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG,testlog
-
-# testlog is set to be a File appender using a PatternLayout.
-log4j.appender.testlog = org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
-log4j.appender.testlog.File = test.log
-log4j.appender.testlog.Append = false
-log4j.appender.testlog.Threshold = DEBUG
-log4j.appender.testlog.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.testlog.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n
-