diff --git a/map-reduce-java/customer_first_and_last_order_dates/pom.xml b/map-reduce-java/customer_first_and_last_order_dates/pom.xml
index 3bfa3d7..b80e972 100644
--- a/map-reduce-java/customer_first_and_last_order_dates/pom.xml
+++ b/map-reduce-java/customer_first_and_last_order_dates/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>customer_first_and_last_order_dates</groupId>
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     <version>1.0</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <name>customer_first_and_last_order_dates</name>
-    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+    <url>https://maven.apache.org</url>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     </properties>
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         <repository>
             <id>org.springsource.maven.milestone</id>
             <name>SpringSource Maven Milestone Repository</name>
-            <url>http://repo.springsource.org/libs-milestone</url>
+            <url>https://repo.springsource.org/libs-milestone</url>
         </repository>
     </repositories>
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/map-reduce-java/taxpaid_by_postalcode/pom.xml b/map-reduce-java/taxpaid_by_postalcode/pom.xml
index 2a476b8..8307671 100644
--- a/map-reduce-java/taxpaid_by_postalcode/pom.xml
+++ b/map-reduce-java/taxpaid_by_postalcode/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <groupId>taxpaid_by_postalcode</groupId>
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>taxpaid_by_postalcode</name>
-  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+  <url>https://maven.apache.org</url>
 
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         <repository>
             <id>org.springsource.maven.milestone</id>
             <name>SpringSource Maven Milestone Repository</name>
-            <url>http://repo.springsource.org/libs-milestone</url>
+            <url>https://repo.springsource.org/libs-milestone</url>
         </repository>
     </repositories>
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/spring-data-jdbc/spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode/pom.xml b/spring-data-jdbc/spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode/pom.xml
index 806bbde..0823f7f 100644
--- a/spring-data-jdbc/spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-data-jdbc/spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <groupId>spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode</groupId>
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode</name>
-  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+  <url>https://maven.apache.org</url>
 
 <properties>
 		<maven.test.failure.ignore>true</maven.test.failure.ignore>
diff --git a/spring-data-jdbc/spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode/src/main/resources/datasources-beans.xml b/spring-data-jdbc/spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode/src/main/resources/datasources-beans.xml
index 791b679..1b8bc30 100644
--- a/spring-data-jdbc/spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode/src/main/resources/datasources-beans.xml
+++ b/spring-data-jdbc/spring-jdbc-topten-business-zipcode/src/main/resources/datasources-beans.xml
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
-	    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+	    https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
 		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
+		https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
 	 <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:/jdbc.properties"/>
 	 
 	<bean id="postGresDataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
diff --git a/spring-hadoop-wordcount-gphd/pom.xml b/spring-hadoop-wordcount-gphd/pom.xml
index a9b3541..73499e4 100644
--- a/spring-hadoop-wordcount-gphd/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-hadoop-wordcount-gphd/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <groupId>spring-hadoop-wordcount-gphd</groupId>
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         <repository>
             <id>spring-releases</id>
             <name>SpringSource Releases</name>
-            <url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
+            <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
         </repository>
     </repositories>
 
diff --git a/spring-hadoop-wordcount-gphd/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml b/spring-hadoop-wordcount-gphd/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml
index c6bd0d5..9e84831 100644
--- a/spring-hadoop-wordcount-gphd/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml
+++ b/spring-hadoop-wordcount-gphd/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop/spring-hadoop.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop https://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop/spring-hadoop.xsd">
 
 	<context:property-placeholder location="hadoop.properties" />
 
diff --git a/spring-hadoop-wordcount/pom.xml b/spring-hadoop-wordcount/pom.xml
index 77a797f..b0f6a95 100644
--- a/spring-hadoop-wordcount/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-hadoop-wordcount/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
 	<groupId>spring-hadoop-wordcount</groupId>
diff --git a/spring-hadoop-wordcount/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml b/spring-hadoop-wordcount/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml
index 1adfd10..c833f36 100644
--- a/spring-hadoop-wordcount/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml
+++ b/spring-hadoop-wordcount/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop/spring-hadoop.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop https://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop/spring-hadoop.xsd">
 
 	<context:property-placeholder location="hadoop.properties" />
 
diff --git a/spring-hadoop/pom.xml b/spring-hadoop/pom.xml
index e30bac0..dc00490 100644
--- a/spring-hadoop/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-hadoop/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
 	<groupId>spring-hadoop</groupId>
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 	<name>spring-hadoop</name>
 
-	<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+	<url>https://maven.apache.org</url>
 
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
diff --git a/spring-hadoop/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml b/spring-hadoop/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml
index ff68163..915b963 100644
--- a/spring-hadoop/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml
+++ b/spring-hadoop/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
-	http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop/spring-hadoop.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
+	http://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop https://www.springframework.org/schema/hadoop/spring-hadoop.xsd">
 
 	<context:property-placeholder location="hadoop.properties" />