diff --git a/modules/addons/transports/udp/pom.xml b/modules/addons/transports/udp/pom.xml
index 7d702ae2b..d50d27adc 100644
--- a/modules/addons/transports/udp/pom.xml
+++ b/modules/addons/transports/udp/pom.xml
@@ -44,10 +44,6 @@
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.woodstox</groupId>
       <artifactId>woodstox-core</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-      <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <!-- END - this should be JDK9 only dependency -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/jaxbintros/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/jaxbintros/main/module.xml
index 3fdff5887..596c585af 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/jaxbintros/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/jaxbintros/main/module.xml
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@
     </resources>
 
     <dependencies>
-        <!--WFLY-14219 Remove deprecated <module name="javax.api"/> -->
-        <module name="javax.xml.bind.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.bind.api"/>
         <module name="com.sun.xml.bind" services="import"/>
         <module name="org.apache.commons.logging"/>
         <module name="org.apache.commons.beanutils"/>
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/api/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/api/main/module.xml
index 5a3bc9ae3..3855d77c9 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/api/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/api/main/module.xml
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@
     </resources>
 
     <dependencies>
-        <module name="javax.xml.soap.api"/>
-        <module name="javax.xml.ws.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.soap.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.ws.api"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.logging"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.modules"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.jaxws-client" services="import"/>
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/common/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/common/main/module.xml
index c248d67fa..61c6fa301 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/common/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/common/main/module.xml
@@ -35,19 +35,14 @@
     <dependencies>
         <module name="java.management"/>
         <module name="java.naming"/>
-        <module name="javax.annotation.api"/>
-        <module name="javax.xml.stream.api"/>
-        <module name="javax.jws.api"/>
-        <module name="javax.servlet.api"/>
+        <module name="java.xml"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.annotation.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.servlet.api"/>
         <module name="javax.wsdl4j.api" />
-        <module name="javax.xml.ws.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.ws.api"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.api"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.spi"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.logging"/>
-        <module name="org.apache.xerces" services="import"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.jaxbintros"/>
-        <!-- Not supported and the API is not provided in an EE 9 server -->
-        <module name="javax.xml.rpc.api" optional="true"/>
-        <module name="java.xml"/>
     </dependencies>
 </module>
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-client/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-client/main/module.xml
index 07abc68ae..17fc7d81c 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-client/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-client/main/module.xml
@@ -26,24 +26,23 @@
 
     <dependencies>
         <!-- JAXB API + REF IMPL -->
-        <module name="javax.xml.bind.api" export="true"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.bind.api" export="true"/>
         <module name="org.glassfish.jaxb" export="true" services="export"/>
-        <module name="javax.xml.ws.api" export="true"/>
-        <module name="javax.jws.api" export="true"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.ws.api" export="true"/>
         <!-- WSDL4J API -->
         <module name="javax.wsdl4j.api" export="true"/>
         <!-- JBossWS API -->
-        <module name="org.jboss.ws.api" export="true"/>
+        <module name="org.jboss.ws.api" export="true" />
         <!--  JBossWS JAXWS client -->
-        <module name="org.jboss.ws.jaxws-client" export="true" services="export"/>
+        <module name="org.jboss.ws.jaxws-client" export="true" services="export" />
         <!--  JBossWS configuration of Apache CXF -->
-        <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-factories" services="export"/>
+        <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-factories" services="export" />
         <!-- Apache CXF APIs only -->
-        <module name="org.apache.cxf" export="true"/>
-        <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-transports-undertow" export="true" services="export"/>
-        <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-transports-udp" export="true" services="export"/>
+        <module name="org.apache.cxf" export="true" />
+        <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-transports-undertow" export="true" services="export" />
+        <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-transports-udp" export="true" services="export" />
         <module name="org.jboss.jaxbintros" export="true"/>
-        <module name="javax.security.auth.message.api" export="true"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.security.auth.message.api" export="true"/>
         <module name="org.apache.ws.security" export="true"/>
         <module name="org.eclipse.angus.activation" export="true" services="export"/>
         <!-- Tools support on JDK 9 and later -->
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-server/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-server/main/module.xml
index fc545ab85..ef54eee3f 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-server/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-server/main/module.xml
@@ -35,13 +35,12 @@
     <dependencies>
         <module name="java.logging"/>
         <module name="java.management"/>
-        <module name="javax.security.auth.message.api"/>
-        <module name="javax.servlet.api" />
-        <module name="javax.jws.api" />
+        <module name="java.xml"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.security.auth.message.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.servlet.api" />
         <module name="javax.wsdl4j.api" />
-        <module name="javax.xml.bind.api" />
-        <module name="javax.xml.stream.api" />
-        <module name="javax.xml.ws.api" />
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.bind.api" />
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.ws.api" />
         <module name="org.apache.commons.codec" />
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.api" />
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.spi" />
@@ -50,26 +49,25 @@
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-factories" services="import"/>
         <!-- do not import services from cxf, those need to come from jbossws -->
         <module name="org.apache.cxf.impl">
-          <imports>
-            <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
-            <include path="META-INF"/>
-          </imports>
+            <imports>
+                <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
+                <include path="META-INF"/>
+            </imports>
         </module>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-transports-undertow" services="import">
-          <imports>
-            <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
-            <include path="META-INF"/>
-          </imports>
+            <imports>
+                <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
+                <include path="META-INF"/>
+            </imports>
         </module>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-transports-udp" services="import">
-          <imports>
-            <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
-            <include path="META-INF"/>
-          </imports>
+            <imports>
+                <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
+                <include path="META-INF"/>
+            </imports>
         </module>
         <module name="org.jboss.logging" />
         <module name="org.apache.ws.security" />
         <module name="org.wildfly.security.elytron" />
-        <module name="java.xml"/>
     </dependencies>
 </module>
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-transports-udp/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-transports-udp/main/module.xml
index f9e8b40e6..716730c0e 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-transports-udp/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-transports-udp/main/module.xml
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@
 
     <dependencies>
         <module name="java.logging"/>
-        <module name="javax.annotation.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.annotation.api"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.logging"/>
-        <module name="javax.xml.ws.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.ws.api"/>
         <module name="org.apache.cxf.impl" services="import">
-          <imports>
-            <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
-            <include path="META-INF"/>
-          </imports>
+            <imports>
+                <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
+                <include path="META-INF"/>
+            </imports>
         </module>
     </dependencies>
 </module>
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-transports-undertow/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-transports-undertow/main/module.xml
index a10c72272..90e98fd86 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-transports-undertow/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/cxf/jbossws-cxf-transports-undertow/main/module.xml
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.spi"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.common"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.logging"/>
-        <module name="javax.annotation.api"/>
-        <module name="javax.xml.ws.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.annotation.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.ws.api"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.jaxws-undertow-httpspi"/>
         <module name="org.apache.cxf.impl" services="import">
-          <imports>
-            <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
-            <include path="META-INF"/>
-          </imports>
+            <imports>
+                <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
+                <include path="META-INF"/>
+            </imports>
         </module>
         <module name="io.undertow.core"/>
     </dependencies>
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/jaxws-client/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/jaxws-client/main/module.xml
index 7f76765c0..436fc6d26 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/jaxws-client/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/jaxws-client/main/module.xml
@@ -36,36 +36,36 @@
         <module name="java.compiler"/>
         <module name="java.management"/>
         <module name="java.naming"/>
-        <module name="javax.servlet.api" />
-        <module name="javax.xml.bind.api" />
-        <module name="javax.security.auth.message.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.servlet.api" />
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.bind.api" />
+        <module name="jakarta.security.auth.message.api"/>
         <module name="com.sun.xml.bind" services="import"/>
-        <module name="javax.xml.ws.api" />
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.ws.api" />
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.api" />
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.spi" />
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.common" />
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-factories" services="import"/>
         <!-- do not import services from cxf, those need to come from jbossws -->
         <module name="org.apache.cxf.impl">
-          <imports>
-            <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
-            <include path="META-INF"/>
-          </imports>
+            <imports>
+                <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
+                <include path="META-INF"/>
+            </imports>
         </module>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-transports-undertow" services="import">
-          <imports>
-            <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
-            <include path="META-INF"/>
-          </imports>
+            <imports>
+                <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
+                <include path="META-INF"/>
+            </imports>
         </module>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.cxf.jbossws-cxf-transports-udp" services="import">
-          <imports>
-            <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
-            <include path="META-INF"/>
-          </imports>
+            <imports>
+                <include path="META-INF/cxf"/> <!-- required to also pull in the bus extensions from META-INF -->
+                <include path="META-INF"/>
+            </imports>
         </module>
         <module name="org.apache.neethi" />
-        <module name="org.apache.ws.security"/>
+        <module name="org.apache.ws.security" />
         <module name="org.jboss.logging" />
         <module name="org.apache.commons.beanutils"/>
         <module name="javax.wsdl4j.api" />
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/jaxws-undertow-httpspi/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/jaxws-undertow-httpspi/main/module.xml
index 124cf8867..9101d653c 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/jaxws-undertow-httpspi/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/jaxws-undertow-httpspi/main/module.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     </resources>
 
     <dependencies>
-        <module name="javax.xml.ws.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.ws.api"/>
         <module name="io.undertow.core"/>
     </dependencies>
 </module>
diff --git a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/spi/main/module.xml b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/spi/main/module.xml
index 0cb30aa1f..b27c665ce 100644
--- a/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/spi/main/module.xml
+++ b/modules/feature-pack/src/main/resources/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/ws/spi/main/module.xml
@@ -34,12 +34,11 @@
 
     <dependencies>
         <module name="java.management"/>
-        <module name="javax.servlet.api"/>
-        <module name="javax.xml.stream.api"/>
-        <module name="javax.xml.ws.api"/>
+        <module name="java.xml"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.servlet.api"/>
+        <module name="jakarta.xml.ws.api"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.logging"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.ws.api"/>
         <module name="org.jboss.as.webservices"/>
-        <module name="java.xml"/>
     </dependencies>
 </module>
diff --git a/modules/server/pom.xml b/modules/server/pom.xml
index 68805f432..933a2e37b 100644
--- a/modules/server/pom.xml
+++ b/modules/server/pom.xml
@@ -182,12 +182,6 @@
       <artifactId>jakarta.xml.ws-api</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
-    <!-- jboss provided -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-      <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    
     <!-- transitive dependencies -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
diff --git a/modules/testsuite/cxf-tests/pom.xml b/modules/testsuite/cxf-tests/pom.xml
index c301d6433..f120d969b 100644
--- a/modules/testsuite/cxf-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/modules/testsuite/cxf-tests/pom.xml
@@ -71,11 +71,6 @@
       <artifactId>woodstox-core</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-      <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.derby</groupId>
        <artifactId>derby</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5efa6b376..da8635218 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@
     <saaj.api.version>1.0.0.Final</saaj.api.version>
     <saaj.impl.version>3.0.0</saaj.impl.version>
     <velocity.version>2.3</velocity.version>
-    <xerces.version>2.12.0.SP05</xerces.version>
     <xmlsec.version>3.0.1</xmlsec.version>
     <wss4j.version>3.0.0</wss4j.version>
     <wstx.version>6.4.0</wstx.version>
@@ -719,15 +718,6 @@
         <artifactId>jakarta.servlet-api</artifactId>
         <version>${jakarta.servlet-api.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-
-      <!-- jboss provided -->
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-        <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-        <version>${xerces.version}</version>
-        <scope>provided</scope>
-      </dependency>
-
       <!-- transitive dependencies -->
       <dependency>
         <groupId>jakarta.activation</groupId>