diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/dependency/fromDependencies/BuildClasspathMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/dependency/fromDependencies/BuildClasspathMojo.java
index 388c47c4e..ab1c2689c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/dependency/fromDependencies/BuildClasspathMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/dependency/fromDependencies/BuildClasspathMojo.java
@@ -18,15 +18,12 @@
  */
 package org.apache.maven.plugins.dependency.fromDependencies;
 
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.BufferedWriter;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -35,6 +32,8 @@
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;
@@ -307,9 +306,8 @@ private void storeClasspathFile(String cpString, File out) throws MojoExecutionE
         // make sure the parent path exists.
         out.getParentFile().mkdirs();
 
-        String encoding = Objects.toString(outputEncoding, "UTF-8");
-
-        try (Writer w = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(out), encoding))) {
+        String encoding = Objects.toString(outputEncoding, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
+        try (Writer w = Files.newBufferedWriter(out.toPath(), Charset.forName(encoding))) {
             w.write(cpString);
             getLog().info("Wrote classpath file '" + out + "'.");
         } catch (IOException ex) {
@@ -333,15 +331,11 @@ protected String readClasspathFile() throws IOException {
         if (!outputFile.isFile()) {
             return null;
         }
-        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
-        String encoding = Objects.toString(outputEncoding, "UTF-8");
 
-        try (BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(outputFile), encoding))) {
-            for (String line = r.readLine(); line != null; line = r.readLine()) {
-                sb.append(line);
-            }
+        String encoding = Objects.toString(outputEncoding, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
 
-            return sb.toString();
+        try (Stream<String> lines = Files.lines(outputFile.toPath(), Charset.forName(encoding))) {
+            return lines.collect(Collectors.joining());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/dependency/utils/DependencyUtil.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/dependency/utils/DependencyUtil.java
index 0f58d1b2d..dbb6a654e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/dependency/utils/DependencyUtil.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/dependency/utils/DependencyUtil.java
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
@@ -106,15 +106,13 @@ public static String getFormattedFileName(
             destFileName.append(artifact.getGroupId()).append(".");
         }
 
-        String versionString;
+        String versionString = "";
         if (!removeVersion) {
             if (useBaseVersion) {
                 versionString = "-" + ArtifactUtils.toSnapshotVersion(artifact.getVersion());
             } else {
                 versionString = "-" + artifact.getVersion();
             }
-        } else {
-            versionString = "";
         }
 
         String classifierString = "";
@@ -227,9 +225,9 @@ public static synchronized void write(String string, File file, boolean append,
      */
     public static synchronized void write(String string, File file, boolean append, String encoding)
             throws IOException {
-        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
+        Files.createDirectories(file.getParentFile().toPath());
 
-        try (Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file, append), encoding)) {
+        try (Writer writer = Files.newBufferedWriter(file.toPath(), Charset.forName(encoding))) {
             writer.write(string);
         }
     }
@@ -242,15 +240,9 @@ public static synchronized void write(String string, File file, boolean append,
      * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
      */
     public static synchronized void log(String string, Log log) throws IOException {
-        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(string));
-
-        String line;
-
-        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
-            log.info(line);
+        try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(string))) {
+            reader.lines().forEach(log::info);
         }
-
-        reader.close();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -273,7 +265,7 @@ public static String cleanToBeTokenizedString(String str) {
         String ret = "";
         if (!(str == null || str.isEmpty())) {
             // remove initial and ending spaces, plus all spaces next to commas
-            ret = str.trim().replaceAll("[\\s]*,[\\s]*", ",");
+            ret = str.trim().replaceAll("\\s*,\\s*", ",");
         }
 
         return ret;