diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 61711e2..c0ed3dd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>maven-plugins</artifactId>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-    <version>34</version>
-    <relativePath>../../pom/maven/maven-plugins/pom.xml</relativePath>
+    <version>36</version>
+    <relativePath />
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>maven-rar-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
   </issueManagement>
   <ciManagement>
     <system>Jenkins</system>
-    <url>https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Maven/job/maven-box/job/maven-rar-plugin/</url>
+    <url>https://ci-maven.apache.org/job/Maven/job/maven-box/job/maven-rar-plugin/</url>
   </ciManagement>
   <distributionManagement>
     <site>
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@
   </contributors>
   
   <properties>
-    <mavenVersion>3.0</mavenVersion>
     <javaVersion>7</javaVersion>
+    <mavenVersion>3.3.9</mavenVersion>
     <project.build.outputTimestamp>2020-04-07T21:04:00Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
   </properties>  
 
@@ -82,16 +82,36 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
       <version>${mavenVersion}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
       <version>${mavenVersion}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-artifact</artifactId>
       <version>${mavenVersion}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-model</artifactId>
+      <version>${mavenVersion}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-settings</artifactId>
+      <version>${mavenVersion}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
+      <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
+      <version>1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
@@ -101,17 +121,12 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
       <artifactId>plexus-interpolation</artifactId>
-      <version>1.25</version>
+      <version>1.26</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
       <artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
-      <version>3.3.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
-      <artifactId>maven-shared-utils</artifactId>
-      <version>3.3.3</version>
+      <version>3.3.1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
@@ -126,7 +141,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-archiver</artifactId>
-      <version>3.5.1</version>
+      <version>3.5.2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
@@ -143,7 +158,7 @@
     <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>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
@@ -171,6 +186,12 @@
         </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.eclipse.sisu</groupId>
+        <artifactId>sisu-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
   </build>
 
   <profiles>
diff --git a/src/it/default-extension/pom.xml b/src/it/default-extension/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c36351
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/default-extension/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you 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.
+-->
+
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.it0070</groupId>
+  <artifactId>maven-it-it0070</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <packaging>rar</packaging>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: it0070</name> 
+  <description>Test a RAR generation.</description>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-rar-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>@project.version@</version>
+        <extensions>true</extensions>
+        <configuration>
+          <includeJar>false</includeJar>
+          <raXmlFile>src/main/custom/ra.xml</raXmlFile>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/src/it/default-extension/src/main/custom/ra.xml b/src/it/default-extension/src/main/custom/ra.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e74236b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/default-extension/src/main/custom/ra.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you 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.
+-->
+<connector>
+  <fake-content></fake-content>
+</connector>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/default-extension/src/main/rar/SomeResource.txt b/src/it/default-extension/src/main/rar/SomeResource.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c4d2c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/default-extension/src/main/rar/SomeResource.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you 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.
+
+foo=${project.version}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/default-extension/verify.bsh b/src/it/default-extension/verify.bsh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78575e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/default-extension/verify.bsh
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.*;
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.jar.*;
+import java.util.regex.*;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.util.*;
+
+try
+{
+    File jarFile = new File( basedir, "target/maven-it-it0070-1.0-SNAPSHOT.rar" );
+    System.out.println( "Checking for existence of " + jarFile );
+    if ( !jarFile.isFile() )
+    {
+        System.out.println( "FAILURE! rar file not found" );
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    JarFile jar = new JarFile( jarFile );
+
+    String[] includedEntries = {
+        "META-INF/ra.xml",
+        "SomeResource.txt",
+    };
+    for ( String included : includedEntries )
+    {
+        System.out.println( "Checking for existence of " + included );
+        if ( jar.getEntry( included ) == null )
+        {
+            System.out.println( "FAILURE! entry not in rar file" + included );
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    InputStream stream = jar.getInputStream( jar.getEntry("SomeResource.txt") );
+
+    String content = new String(IOUtil.toByteArray( stream ));
+
+    int idx = content.indexOf("${project.version}");
+
+    if (idx<1) {
+      System.out.println("SomeResource.txt not filtered");
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    jar.close();
+}
+catch( Throwable t )
+{
+    t.printStackTrace();
+    return false;
+}
+
+return true;
diff --git a/src/main/filtered-resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml b/src/main/filtered-resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 18f1bc0..0000000
--- a/src/main/filtered-resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<!--
-  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-  or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
-  distributed with this work for additional information
-  regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
-  to you 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.
--->
-
-<component-set>
-  <components>
-    <!--
-     | RAR
-     |-->
-    <component>
-      <role>org.apache.maven.artifact.handler.ArtifactHandler</role>
-      <role-hint>rar</role-hint>
-      <implementation>org.apache.maven.artifact.handler.DefaultArtifactHandler</implementation>
-      <configuration>
-        <type>rar</type>
-        <includesDependencies>true</includesDependencies>
-        <language>java</language>
-        <addedToClasspath>false</addedToClasspath>
-      </configuration>
-    </component>
-
-    <!--
-      | Defining the phases with their appropriate plugins
-      ! and versions which will be executed during the 'default'
-      ! life cycle.
-    -->
-    <component>
-      <role>org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.LifecycleMapping</role>
-      <role-hint>rar</role-hint>
-      <implementation>org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.DefaultLifecycleMapping</implementation>
-      <configuration>
-        <lifecycles>
-          <lifecycle>
-            <id>default</id>
-            <!-- START SNIPPET: rar-lifecycle -->
-            <phases>
-              <process-resources>
-                org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:3.0.2:resources
-              </process-resources>
-              <compile>
-                org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.5.1:compile
-              </compile>
-              <process-test-resources>
-                org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:3.0.2:testResources
-              </process-test-resources>
-              <test-compile>
-                org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.5.1:testCompile
-              </test-compile>
-              <test>
-                org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.19.1:test
-              </test>
-              <package>
-                org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-rar-plugin:${project.version}:rar
-              </package>
-              <install>
-                org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.5.2:install
-              </install>
-              <deploy>
-                org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.8.2:deploy
-              </deploy>
-            </phases>
-            <!-- END SNIPPET: rar-lifecycle -->
-          </lifecycle>
-        </lifecycles>
-      </configuration>
-    </component>
-
-  </components>
-</component-set>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/rar/internal/RarArtifactHandler.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/rar/internal/RarArtifactHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..405cc76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/rar/internal/RarArtifactHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package org.apache.maven.plugins.rar.internal;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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 javax.inject.Named;
+import javax.inject.Singleton;
+
+import org.apache.maven.artifact.handler.DefaultArtifactHandler;
+
+/**
+ * RAR Artifact Handler.
+ */
+@Singleton
+@Named( "rar" )
+public class RarArtifactHandler extends DefaultArtifactHandler
+{
+    public RarArtifactHandler()
+    {
+        super( "rar" );
+        setIncludesDependencies( true );
+        setLanguage( "java" );
+        setAddedToClasspath( false );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/rar/internal/RarLifecycleMappingProvider.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/rar/internal/RarLifecycleMappingProvider.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..964c8bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/rar/internal/RarLifecycleMappingProvider.java
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+package org.apache.maven.plugins.rar.internal;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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 javax.inject.Named;
+import javax.inject.Provider;
+import javax.inject.Singleton;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.Lifecycle;
+import org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.LifecycleMapping;
+import org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.LifecyclePhase;
+
+/**
+ * {@code rar} packaging plugins bindings provider for {@code default} lifecycle.
+ */
+@Singleton
+@Named( "rar" )
+public final class RarLifecycleMappingProvider
+        implements Provider<LifecycleMapping>
+{
+    // Note: "this" plugin does NOT have to have version specified, as the version should be specified in
+    // effective POM, otherwise this lifecycle mapping would not be loaded at all. Hence, the version of
+    // "this" plugin (in this case maven-rar-plugin) version is NEVER considered, and will come from
+    // effective POM of project using this plugin.
+    @SuppressWarnings( "checkstyle:linelength" )
+    private static final String[] BINDINGS =
+            {
+                    "process-resources", "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:3.2.0:resources",
+                    "compile", "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1:compile",
+                    "process-test-resources", "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:3.2.0:testResources",
+                    "test-compile", "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1:testCompile",
+                    "test", "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M5:test",
+                    "package", "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-rar-plugin:rar",
+                    "install", "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:3.0.0-M1:install",
+                    "deploy", "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:3.0.0-M1:deploy"
+            };
+
+    private final Lifecycle defaultLifecycle;
+    private final LifecycleMapping lifecycleMapping;
+
+    public RarLifecycleMappingProvider()
+    {
+        HashMap<String, LifecyclePhase> bindings = new HashMap<>();
+        for ( int i = 0; i < BINDINGS.length; i = i + 2 )
+        {
+            bindings.put( BINDINGS[i], new LifecyclePhase( BINDINGS[i + 1] ) );
+        }
+        this.defaultLifecycle = new Lifecycle();
+        this.defaultLifecycle.setId( "default" );
+        this.defaultLifecycle.setLifecyclePhases( bindings );
+
+
+        this.lifecycleMapping = new LifecycleMapping()
+        {
+            @Override
+            public Map<String, Lifecycle> getLifecycles()
+            {
+                return Collections.singletonMap( "default", defaultLifecycle );
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public List<String> getOptionalMojos( String lifecycle )
+            {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public Map<String, String> getPhases( String lifecycle )
+            {
+                if ( "default".equals( lifecycle ) )
+                {
+                    return defaultLifecycle.getPhases();
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    return null;
+                }
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public LifecycleMapping get()
+    {
+        return lifecycleMapping;
+    }
+}