diff --git a/hbase-http/pom.xml b/hbase-http/pom.xml
index 2cdb4f3cebb6..2eb754a96ad3 100644
--- a/hbase-http/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-http/pom.xml
@@ -93,10 +93,6 @@
       <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
       <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
-      <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.github.stephenc.findbugs</groupId>
       <artifactId>findbugs-annotations</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase-mapreduce/pom.xml b/hbase-mapreduce/pom.xml
index f54144f39364..1f692fc4f03b 100644
--- a/hbase-mapreduce/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-mapreduce/pom.xml
@@ -288,6 +288,11 @@
           <type>test-jar</type>
           <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
+          <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
+          <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
           <!--maven dependency:analyze says not needed but tests fail w/o-->
           <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
diff --git a/hbase-rest/pom.xml b/hbase-rest/pom.xml
index 8a3b9f31ddf1..176b58fb2cdb 100644
--- a/hbase-rest/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-rest/pom.xml
@@ -30,15 +30,6 @@
   <name>Apache HBase - Rest</name>
   <description>HBase Rest Server</description>
   <dependencies>
-    <!--This one is upfront to get in front of
-         any dependency that pulls in jersey-core.
-         Jersey-core has implemented version 1
-         Interfaces of what is in this dependency
-         which does version 2.-->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
-      <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <!-- Intra-project dependencies -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>