diff --git a/dev-support/Jenkinsfile_GitHub b/dev-support/Jenkinsfile_GitHub
index fdd6c6081862..02eb46b4ff7d 100644
--- a/dev-support/Jenkinsfile_GitHub
+++ b/dev-support/Jenkinsfile_GitHub
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ pipeline {
         // stage works in its own subdirectory. there is an "output" under each of these
         // directories, which we retrieve after the build is complete.
         WORKDIR_REL_GENERAL_CHECK = 'yetus-general-check'
-        WORKDIR_REL_JDK8_HADOOP2_CHECK = 'yetus-jdk8-hadoop2-check'
+        WORKDIR_REL_JDK8_HADOOP3_CHECK = 'yetus-jdk8-hadoop3-check'
         WORKDIR_REL_JDK11_HADOOP3_CHECK = 'yetus-jdk11-hadoop3-check'
     }
 
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ pipeline {
                         }
                     }
                 }
-                stage ('yetus jdk8 Hadoop2 checks') {
+                stage ('yetus jdk8 Hadoop3 checks') {
                     agent {
                         node {
                             label 'Hadoop'
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ pipeline {
                         // customized per parallel stage
                         PLUGINS = "${JDK_SPECIFIC_PLUGINS}"
                         SET_JAVA_HOME = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-8'
-                        WORKDIR_REL = "${WORKDIR_REL_JDK8_HADOOP2_CHECK}"
+                        WORKDIR_REL = "${WORKDIR_REL_JDK8_HADOOP3_CHECK}"
                         // identical for all parallel stages
                         WORKDIR = "${WORKSPACE}/${WORKDIR_REL}"
                         YETUSDIR = "${WORKDIR}/${YETUS_REL}"
@@ -259,7 +259,6 @@ pipeline {
                         // customized per parallel stage
                         PLUGINS = "${JDK_SPECIFIC_PLUGINS}"
                         SET_JAVA_HOME = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-11'
-                        HADOOP_PROFILE = '3.0'
                         WORKDIR_REL = "${WORKDIR_REL_JDK11_HADOOP3_CHECK}"
                         // identical for all parallel stages
                         WORKDIR = "${WORKSPACE}/${WORKDIR_REL}"
diff --git a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
index d149436d6212..2481acfb28e1 100755
--- a/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
+++ b/dev-support/hbase-personality.sh
@@ -589,13 +589,16 @@ function hadoopcheck_rebuild
     else
       hbase_hadoop2_versions="2.8.5 2.9.2 2.10.0"
     fi
-  else
-    yetus_info "Setting Hadoop 2 versions to test based on branch-2.3+/master/feature branch rules."
+  elif [[ "${PATCH_BRANCH}" = branch-2.* ]]; then
+    yetus_info "Setting Hadoop 2 versions to test based on branch-2.3+ rules."
     if [[ "${QUICK_HADOOPCHECK}" == "true" ]]; then
       hbase_hadoop2_versions="2.10.0"
     else
       hbase_hadoop2_versions="2.10.0"
     fi
+  else
+    yetus_info "Setting Hadoop 2 versions to null on master/feature branch rules since we do not support hadoop 2 for hbase 3.x any more."
+    hbase_hadoop2_versions=""
   fi
   if [[ "${PATCH_BRANCH}" = branch-1* ]]; then
     yetus_info "Setting Hadoop 3 versions to test based on branch-1.x rules."
@@ -635,13 +638,22 @@ function hadoopcheck_rebuild
 
   for hadoopver in ${hbase_hadoop3_versions}; do
     logfile="${PATCH_DIR}/patch-javac-${hadoopver}.txt"
+    # no hbase_hadoop2_versions means hadoop 3.x only, so we do not need to
+    # specify hadoop.profile
     # disabled because "maven_executor" needs to return both command and args
     # shellcheck disable=2046
-    echo_and_redirect "${logfile}" \
-      $(maven_executor) clean install \
-        -DskipTests -DHBasePatchProcess \
-        -Dhadoop-three.version="${hadoopver}" \
-        -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
+    if [[ -n "${hbase_hadoop2_versions}" ]]; then
+      echo_and_redirect "${logfile}" \
+        $(maven_executor) clean install \
+          -DskipTests -DHBasePatchProcess \
+          -Dhadoop-three.version="${hadoopver}" \
+          -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
+    else
+      echo_and_redirect "${logfile}" \
+        $(maven_executor) clean install \
+          -DskipTests -DHBasePatchProcess \
+          -Dhadoop-three.version="${hadoopver}"
+    fi
     count=$(${GREP} -c '\[ERROR\]' "${logfile}")
     if [[ ${count} -gt 0 ]]; then
       add_vote_table -1 hadoopcheck "${BUILDMODEMSG} causes ${count} errors with Hadoop v${hadoopver}."
@@ -655,7 +667,11 @@ function hadoopcheck_rebuild
   fi
 
   if [[ -n "${hbase_hadoop3_versions}" ]]; then
-    add_vote_table +1 hadoopcheck "Patch does not cause any errors with Hadoop ${hbase_hadoop2_versions} or ${hbase_hadoop3_versions}."
+    if [[ -n "${hbase_hadoop2_versions}" ]]; then
+      add_vote_table +1 hadoopcheck "Patch does not cause any errors with Hadoop ${hbase_hadoop2_versions} or ${hbase_hadoop3_versions}."
+    else
+      add_vote_table +1 hadoopcheck "Patch does not cause any errors with Hadoop ${hbase_hadoop3_versions}."
+    fi
   else
     add_vote_table +1 hadoopcheck "Patch does not cause any errors with Hadoop ${hbase_hadoop2_versions}."
   fi
diff --git a/hbase-backup/pom.xml b/hbase-backup/pom.xml
index e3c379ff076c..5260a44cbcc8 100644
--- a/hbase-backup/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-backup/pom.xml
@@ -123,126 +123,11 @@
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <profiles>
-    <!-- profile against Hadoop 2.x: This is the default. -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-          <!--h2-->
-          <name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>net.java.dev.jets3t</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jets3t</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-json</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-              <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jasper-compiler</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jasper-runtime</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <!--We let hadoop include guava here. It uses it
-                 in the Configuration class -->
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <!--Hadoop2 Uses Guava in Configuration class at least-->
-          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-          <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-          <version>${hadoop.guava.version}</version>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <!--This module seems to need this.-->
-          <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-          <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-          <version>${netty.hadoop.version}</version>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-          <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-              <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
-              <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-distcp</artifactId>
-          <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-client/pom.xml b/hbase-client/pom.xml
index f3845795f532..64d0c8594600 100644
--- a/hbase-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-client/pom.xml
@@ -191,81 +191,11 @@
         <surefire.skipSecondPart>true</surefire.skipSecondPart>
       </properties>
     </profile>
-
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x.  This is the default -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>net.java.dev.jets3t</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jets3t</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jetty-util</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-json</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-              <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jasper-compiler</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jasper-runtime</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-    </profile>
-
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <properties>
         <hadoop.version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</hadoop.version>
diff --git a/hbase-common/pom.xml b/hbase-common/pom.xml
index f9d039a5ba53..85ceba8f3f15 100644
--- a/hbase-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-common/pom.xml
@@ -266,61 +266,11 @@
         <surefire.skipSecondPart>true</surefire.skipSecondPart>
       </properties>
     </profile>
-
-
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x.  This is the default -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-          <!--FYI This pulls in hadoop's guava. Its needed for Configuration
-               at least-->
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>create-mrapp-generated-classpath</id>
-                <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- needed to run the unit test for DS to generate
-                  the required classpath that is required in the env
-                  of the launch container in the mini mr/yarn cluster
-                  -->
-                  <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <properties>
         <hadoop.version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</hadoop.version>
diff --git a/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml b/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml
index 1bd867363f64..7ed78001b1fe 100644
--- a/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml
@@ -201,80 +201,11 @@
     <!-- Profiles for building against different hadoop versions -->
     <!-- There are a lot of common dependencies used here, should investigate
     if we can combine these profiles somehow -->
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x.  This is the default.  -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-          <!--h2-->
-          <name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-          <type>test-jar</type>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
-              <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <!-- Hadoop needs Netty 3.x at test scope for the minicluster -->
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-          <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-          <version>${netty.hadoop.version}</version>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-examples/pom.xml b/hbase-examples/pom.xml
index 08bff98c6947..2ed4e92a70d7 100644
--- a/hbase-examples/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-examples/pom.xml
@@ -262,61 +262,11 @@
     <!-- Profiles for building against different hadoop versions -->
     <!-- There are a lot of common dependencies used here, should investigate
          if we can combine these profiles somehow -->
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x.  This is the default -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-          <!--h2-->
-          <name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>create-mrapp-generated-classpath</id>
-                <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- needed to run the unit test for DS to generate
-                                 the required classpath that is required in the env
-                                 of the launch container in the mini mr/yarn cluster
-                                 -->
-                  <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-       profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-        mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-     -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <properties>
         <hadoop.version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</hadoop.version>
diff --git a/hbase-external-blockcache/pom.xml b/hbase-external-blockcache/pom.xml
index 54111bd89ff4..0b870d80c248 100644
--- a/hbase-external-blockcache/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-external-blockcache/pom.xml
@@ -167,64 +167,11 @@
         <surefire.skipFirstPart>true</surefire.skipFirstPart>
       </properties>
     </profile>
-
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x:  This is the default -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-          <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>create-mrapp-generated-classpath</id>
-                <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- needed to run the unit test for DS to generate
-                  the required classpath that is required in the env
-                  of the launch container in the mini mr/yarn cluster
-                  -->
-                  <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-http/pom.xml b/hbase-http/pom.xml
index 0bf21d292708..41c2f61a817b 100644
--- a/hbase-http/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-http/pom.xml
@@ -310,81 +310,11 @@
     <!-- Profiles for building against different hadoop versions -->
     <!-- There are a lot of common dependencies used here, should investigate
     if we can combine these profiles somehow -->
-
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x.  This is the default.  -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
-              <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-          <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-          <version>1.9.13</version>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>create-mrapp-generated-classpath</id>
-                <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- needed to run the unit test for DS to generate
-                  the required classpath that is required in the env
-                  of the launch container in the mini mr/yarn cluster
-                  -->
-                  <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-it/pom.xml b/hbase-it/pom.xml
index 460879d214bd..3f97cac5fdb1 100644
--- a/hbase-it/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-it/pom.xml
@@ -281,86 +281,14 @@
         </dependency>
       </dependencies>
     </profile>
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x.  This is the default -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
-          <type>test-jar</type>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-minikdc</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>create-mrapp-generated-classpath</id>
-                <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- needed to run the unit test for DS to generate
-                  the required classpath that is required in the env
-                  of the launch container in the mini mr/yarn cluster
-                  -->
-                  <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <properties>
-        <hadoop.version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</hadoop.version>
+        <hadoop.version>${hadoop-three.version}</hadoop.version>
       </properties>
       <dependencies>
 	    <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-mapreduce/pom.xml b/hbase-mapreduce/pom.xml
index 9b519dd1fe06..e85b42377f40 100644
--- a/hbase-mapreduce/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-mapreduce/pom.xml
@@ -256,132 +256,11 @@
         <surefire.skipSecondPart>true</surefire.skipSecondPart>
       </properties>
     </profile>
-    <!-- profile against Hadoop 2.x: This is the default. -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>net.java.dev.jets3t</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jets3t</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-json</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-              <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jasper-compiler</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jasper-runtime</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-              <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-              <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>stax</groupId>
-              <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-              <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <!--maven dependency:analyze says not needed but tests fail w/o-->
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
-              <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <!-- Hadoop needs Netty 3.x at test scope for the minicluster -->
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-          <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-          <version>${netty.hadoop.version}</version>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-
-    </profile>
-
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-procedure/pom.xml b/hbase-procedure/pom.xml
index d4b993774de4..7f968a3e82f6 100644
--- a/hbase-procedure/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-procedure/pom.xml
@@ -130,34 +130,11 @@
       </properties>
     </profile>
     <!-- Profiles for building against different hadoop versions -->
-
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x.  This is the default -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-replication/pom.xml b/hbase-replication/pom.xml
index a4518ef1276a..ff43b4b2552f 100644
--- a/hbase-replication/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-replication/pom.xml
@@ -124,79 +124,14 @@
   </dependencies>
 
   <profiles>
-    <!-- profile against Hadoop 2.x: This is the default. -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>net.java.dev.jets3t</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jets3t</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jersey-json</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-              <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jasper-compiler</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jasper-runtime</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-    </profile>
-
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <properties>
-        <hadoop.version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</hadoop.version>
+        <hadoop.version>${hadoop-three.version}</hadoop.version>
       </properties>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-rest/pom.xml b/hbase-rest/pom.xml
index 8aa7b77338ec..aea746fb4863 100644
--- a/hbase-rest/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-rest/pom.xml
@@ -376,55 +376,11 @@
       </properties>
     </profile>
     <!-- Hadoop-specific dependencies -->
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.0.x
-         This is the default.
-         -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-          <!--h2-->
-          <name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-annotations</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencyManagement>
         <dependencies>
diff --git a/hbase-server/pom.xml b/hbase-server/pom.xml
index 5cf303ec0c38..48992b67bce5 100644
--- a/hbase-server/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-server/pom.xml
@@ -594,123 +594,11 @@
     <!-- Profiles for building against different hadoop versions -->
     <!-- There are a lot of common dependencies used here, should investigate
     if we can combine these profiles somehow -->
-
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x.  This is the default.  -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-distcp</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-annotations</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
-          <type>test-jar</type>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-          <type>test-jar</type>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
-              <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <!-- Hadoop needs Netty 3.x at test scope for the minicluster -->
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-          <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-          <version>${netty.hadoop.version}</version>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>create-mrapp-generated-classpath</id>
-                <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- needed to run the unit test for DS to generate
-                  the required classpath that is required in the env
-                  of the launch container in the mini mr/yarn cluster
-                  -->
-                  <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-client-byo-hadoop/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-client-byo-hadoop/pom.xml
index fcb22b7e3701..090e0682196c 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-client-byo-hadoop/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-client-byo-hadoop/pom.xml
@@ -63,71 +63,11 @@
            module. Essentially, you must list the same hadoop-* dependencies
            so provided dependencies will not be transitively included.
       -->
-      <profile>
-        <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-        <activation>
-          <property>
-              <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-              <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-          </property>
-        </activation>
-        <dependencies>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
-            <version>1.9.13</version>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
-            <version>1.9.13</version>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-        </dependencies>
-      </profile>
-
-      <!--
-        profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-         mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-      -->
+      <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
       <profile>
         <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
         <activation>
-          <property>
-            <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-            <value>3.0</value>
-          </property>
+          <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
         </activation>
         <dependencies>
           <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-mapreduce/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-mapreduce/pom.xml
index fdd389a1fb34..47b0ad584c89 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-mapreduce/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-mapreduce/pom.xml
@@ -169,153 +169,11 @@
              module. Essentially, you must list the same hadoop-* dependencies
              since provided dependencies are not transitively included.
         -->
-        <!-- profile against Hadoop 2.x: This is the default. -->
-        <profile>
-          <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-          <activation>
-            <property>
-                <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-                <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-            </property>
-          </activation>
-          <dependencies>
-            <dependency>
-              <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-              <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-              <scope>provided</scope>
-              <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>net.java.dev.jets3t</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jets3t</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jersey-json</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jasper-compiler</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>tomcat</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jasper-runtime</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-              </exclusions>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-              <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-              <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-              <scope>provided</scope>
-              <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>stax</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-              </exclusions>
-              <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-              <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-              <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-              <scope>provided</scope>
-              <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-              </exclusions>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-              <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
-              <version>1.9.13</version>
-              <scope>provided</scope>
-              <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-              </exclusions>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-              <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-              <artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
-              <version>1.9.13</version>
-              <scope>provided</scope>
-              <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                  <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-              </exclusions>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-              <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-              <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-              <scope>provided</scope>
-            </dependency>
-          </dependencies>
-        </profile>
-
-        <!--
-          profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-           mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-        -->
+        <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
         <profile>
           <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
           <activation>
-            <property>
-              <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-              <value>3.0</value>
-            </property>
+            <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
           </activation>
           <properties>
             <hadoop.version>${hadoop-three.version}</hadoop.version>
diff --git a/hbase-shell/pom.xml b/hbase-shell/pom.xml
index b6df68120677..f10b3f133a16 100644
--- a/hbase-shell/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shell/pom.xml
@@ -198,128 +198,11 @@
     <!-- Profiles for building against different hadoop versions -->
     <!-- There are a lot of common dependencies used here, should investigate
     if we can combine these profiles somehow -->
-
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x. This is the default. -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
-          <type>test-jar</type>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-          <type>test-jar</type>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
-              <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-minikdc</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>create-mrapp-generated-classpath</id>
-                <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- needed to run the unit test for DS to generate
-                  the required classpath that is required in the env
-                  of the launch container in the mini mr/yarn cluster
-                  -->
-                  <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <properties>
         <hadoop.version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</hadoop.version>
diff --git a/hbase-testing-util/pom.xml b/hbase-testing-util/pom.xml
index 05121871d927..723bedcb0dc5 100644
--- a/hbase-testing-util/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-testing-util/pom.xml
@@ -119,103 +119,11 @@
         <!-- Profiles for building against different hadoop versions -->
         <!-- There are a lot of common dependencies used here, should investigate
         if we can combine these profiles somehow -->
-
-        <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x. This is the default -->
-        <profile>
-            <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-            <activation>
-                <property>
-                    <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-                    <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-                </property>
-            </activation>
-            <dependencies>
-                <dependency>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-                    <scope>compile</scope>
-                </dependency>
-                <dependency>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-                    <scope>compile</scope>
-                </dependency>
-                <dependency>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
-                    <scope>compile</scope>
-                    <exclusions>
-                      <exclusion>
-                        <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-                      </exclusion>
-                    </exclusions>
-                </dependency>
-                <dependency>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-                    <scope>compile</scope>
-                    <exclusions>
-                      <exclusion>
-                        <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-                      </exclusion>
-                    </exclusions>
-                </dependency>
-                <dependency>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
-                    <scope>compile</scope>
-                    <exclusions>
-                      <exclusion>
-                        <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-                      </exclusion>
-                    </exclusions>
-                </dependency>
-                <dependency>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-                    <scope>compile</scope>
-                </dependency>
-                <dependency>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-                    <type>test-jar</type>
-                    <scope>compile</scope>
-                </dependency>
-                <dependency>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
-                    <scope>compile</scope>
-                    <exclusions>
-                      <exclusion>
-                        <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-                      </exclusion>
-                      <exclusion>
-                        <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-                      </exclusion>
-                    </exclusions>
-                </dependency>
-                <dependency>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>hadoop-minikdc</artifactId>
-                </dependency>
-            </dependencies>
-        </profile>
-        <!--
-          profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-           mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-        -->
+        <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
         <profile>
             <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
             <activation>
-                <property>
-                    <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-                    <value>3.0</value>
-                </property>
+                <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
             </activation>
             <dependencies>
                 <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-thrift/pom.xml b/hbase-thrift/pom.xml
index 948a609a32f0..215ec7bad4ac 100644
--- a/hbase-thrift/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-thrift/pom.xml
@@ -411,107 +411,11 @@
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>
-
-    <!-- profile against Hadoop 2.x: This is the default -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-          <!--h2-->
-          <name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
-          <type>test-jar</type>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
-          <scope>test</scope>
-          <exclusions>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-              <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-            <exclusion>
-              <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
-              <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
-            </exclusion>
-          </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>create-mrapp-generated-classpath</id>
-                <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- needed to run the unit test for DS to generate
-                  the required classpath that is required in the env
-                  of the launch container in the mini mr/yarn cluster
-                  -->
-                  <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/mrapp-generated-classpath
-                  </outputFile>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-zookeeper/pom.xml b/hbase-zookeeper/pom.xml
index 198e13a43252..2090ca4e8b1b 100644
--- a/hbase-zookeeper/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-zookeeper/pom.xml
@@ -210,61 +210,11 @@
     <!-- Profiles for building against different hadoop versions -->
     <!-- There are a lot of common dependencies used here, should investigate
     if we can combine these profiles somehow -->
-
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.x.  This is the default.  -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-            <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-            <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-          <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>create-mrapp-generated-classpath</id>
-                <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <!-- needed to run the unit test for DS to generate
-                  the required classpath that is required in the env
-                  of the launch container in the mini mr/yarn cluster
-                  -->
-                  <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/test-classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.x. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 461c8e8e3856..4efda288714d 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1479,12 +1479,10 @@
     <maven.min.version>3.0.4</maven.min.version>
     <java.min.version>${compileSource}</java.min.version>
     <!-- Dependencies -->
-    <hadoop-two.version>2.10.0</hadoop-two.version>
     <hadoop-three.version>3.1.2</hadoop-three.version>
     <!-- These must be defined here for downstream build tools that don't look at profiles.
-         They ought to match the values found in our default hadoop profile, which is
-         currently "hadoop-2.0". See HBASE-15925 for more info. -->
-    <hadoop.version>${hadoop-two.version}</hadoop.version>
+    -->
+    <hadoop.version>${hadoop-three.version}</hadoop.version>
     <hadoop.guava.version>11.0.2</hadoop.guava.version>
     <compat.module>hbase-hadoop2-compat</compat.module>
     <assembly.file>src/main/assembly/hadoop-two-compat.xml</assembly.file>
@@ -2412,41 +2410,6 @@
         -->
         <surefire.Xmx>2200m</surefire.Xmx>
       </properties>
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>hadoop3-profile-required</id>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>enforce</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <rules>
-                    <requireProperty>
-                      <!--
-                        $ JAVA_HOME=... mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0 -PrunSmallTests help:active-profiles enforcer:display-info clean test
-                        enforcer plugin does not see active profiles on sub-modules, so enforce based
-                        on the presence of the activation property and value.
-                      -->
-                      <property>hadoop.profile</property>
-                      <regex>.*3\.0$</regex>
-                      <message>
-                        HBase with JDK11 requires Hadoop3. Activate the profile with `-Dhadoop.profile=3.0`.
-                      </message>
-                      <regexMessage>
-                        HBase with JDK11 requires Hadoop3. Activate the profile with `-Dhadoop.profile=3.0`.
-                      </regexMessage>
-                    </requireProperty>
-                  </rules>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
     </profile>
     <!-- profile activated by the Jenkins patch testing job -->
     <profile>
@@ -2630,392 +2593,14 @@
     </profile>
     <!-- Dependency management profiles for submodules when building against specific hadoop branches.-->
     <!-- Submodules that need hadoop dependencies should declare
-    profiles with activation properties matching the profile here.
-    Generally, it should be sufficient to copy the first
-    few lines of the profile you want to match.  -->
-    <!-- profile for building against Hadoop 2.0.x
-         This is the default.
-         -->
-    <profile>
-      <id>hadoop-2.0</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <!--Below formatting for dev-support/generate-hadoopX-poms.sh-->
-          <!--h2--><name>!hadoop.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <modules>
-        <module>hbase-hadoop2-compat</module>
-      </modules>
-      <properties>
-        <hadoop.version>${hadoop-two.version}</hadoop.version>
-        <compat.module>hbase-hadoop2-compat</compat.module>
-        <assembly.file>src/main/assembly/hadoop-two-compat.xml</assembly.file>
-        <!--This property is for hadoops netty. HBase netty
-             comes in via hbase-thirdparty hbase-shaded-netty-->
-        <netty.hadoop.version>3.6.2.Final</netty.hadoop.version>
-      </properties>
-      <dependencyManagement>
-        <dependencies>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-                <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
-                <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-                <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <type>test-jar</type>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-                <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-                <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>stax</groupId>
-                <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-                <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <type>test-jar</type>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-                <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>stax</groupId>
-                <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-                <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-                <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>net.minidev</groupId>
-                <artifactId>json-smart</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
-                <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-                <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>stax</groupId>
-                <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>junit</groupId>
-                <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-             <exclusion>
-               <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-               <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-             </exclusion>
-             <exclusion>
-               <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-               <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-             </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <type>test-jar</type>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-            <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <!--
-              a missing transitive dependency on JDK9+ (obsoleted by Hadoop-3.3.0+, HADOOP-15775)
-              duplicated here because hadoop-3.0 piggy-backs off the hadoop-2.0 profile.
-            -->
-            <groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
-            <artifactId>javax.activation-api</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2.0</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-          </dependency>
-          <!-- This was marked as test dep in earlier pom, but was scoped compile.
-            Where do we actually need it? -->
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <exclusions>
-              <!--If we comment this in, a few tests in hbase-mapreduce
-                   fail. They depend on jersey-core somehow. But excluding
-                   jersey-core here messes up hbase-it because jersey-core
-                   implements a 1.x jaxrs Response Interface when we depend
-                   on the 2.x Interface... . Letting this jar come in
-                   transitively here but will exclude it down in hbase-it.
-                   See HBASE-22029.
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              -->
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
-                <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-                <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>stax</groupId>
-                <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-              <exclusion>
-                <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-          </dependency>
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-minikdc</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-          </dependency>
-         <dependency>
-           <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-           <artifactId>hadoop-annotations</artifactId>
-           <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-         </dependency>
-
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-distcp</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-          </dependency>
-
-          <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs-client</artifactId>
-            <version>${hadoop-two.version}</version>
-          </dependency>
-        </dependencies>
-      </dependencyManagement>
-    </profile>
-    <!--
-      profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate using:
-       mvn -Dhadoop.profile=3.0
-    -->
+         profiles with activation properties matching the profile here.
+         Generally, it should be sufficient to copy the first
+         few lines of the profile you want to match. -->
+    <!-- Profile for building against Hadoop 3.0.0. Activate by default -->
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-3.0</id>
       <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hadoop.profile</name>
-          <value>3.0</value>
-        </property>
+        <property><name>!hadoop.profile</name></property>
       </activation>
       <modules>
         <!--For now, use hadoop2 compat module-->