diff --git a/recipes-core/icedtea/openjdk-7-release-03b147.inc b/recipes-core/icedtea/openjdk-7-release-03b147.inc
index 16bf5921..379fd9ee 100644
--- a/recipes-core/icedtea/openjdk-7-release-03b147.inc
+++ b/recipes-core/icedtea/openjdk-7-release-03b147.inc
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ FILESPATH =. "${FILE_DIRNAME}/openjdk-7-03b147:"
 # Force arm mode for now
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET:armv4t = "ARM"
 
-ICEDTEA_URI = "http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/${ICEDTEA}.tar.gz;name=iced"
+ICEDTEA_URI = "https://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/${ICEDTEA}.tar.gz;name=iced"
 
 ICEDTEA_PREFIX = "icedtea7-forest-2.1"
-ICEDTEA_HG_URL = "http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/${ICEDTEA_PREFIX}"
+ICEDTEA_HG_URL = "https://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/release/${ICEDTEA_PREFIX}"
 
 OPENJDK_CHANGESET = "22cc03983e20"
 OPENJDK_FILE_UPSTREAM = "${OPENJDK_CHANGESET}.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/recipes-core/jacl/jacl_1.4.1.bb b/recipes-core/jacl/jacl_1.4.1.bb
index d510cc87..2b811c72 100644
--- a/recipes-core/jacl/jacl_1.4.1.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/jacl/jacl_1.4.1.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
 
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcljava"
 
-SRC_URI = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tcljava/jacl${PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI = "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/tcljava/jacl${PV}.tar.gz"
 
 inherit java-library
 
diff --git a/recipes-core/jakarta-libs/avalon-framework-api_4.3.bb b/recipes-core/jakarta-libs/avalon-framework-api_4.3.bb
index 081cfe7a..c6d83747 100644
--- a/recipes-core/jakarta-libs/avalon-framework-api_4.3.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/jakarta-libs/avalon-framework-api_4.3.bb
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=1dece7821bf3fd70fe1309eaa37d52a2"
 PR = "r1"
 
 SRC_URI = " \
-	   http://archive.apache.org/dist/excalibur/avalon-framework/source/${BP}-src.tar.gz;name=archive \
-	   http://archive.apache.org/dist/avalon/logkit/source/logkit-1.2.2-src.tar.gz;name=logkit \
+	   https://archive.apache.org/dist/excalibur/excalibur-framework/source/${BP}-src.tar.gz;name=archive \
+	   https://archive.apache.org/dist/avalon/logkit/source/logkit-1.2.2-src.tar.gz;name=logkit \
 	  "
 
 inherit java-library
diff --git a/recipes-core/jamvm/jamvm-initial-native_1.4.5.bb b/recipes-core/jamvm/jamvm-initial-native_1.4.5.bb
index f0348a4b..7773409f 100644
--- a/recipes-core/jamvm/jamvm-initial-native_1.4.5.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/jamvm/jamvm-initial-native_1.4.5.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A compact Java Virtual Machine which conforms to the JVM specification version 2."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/"
-LICENSE = "GPL"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 
 DEPENDS = "zlib-native classpath-initial-native jikes-initial-native libffi-native"
diff --git a/recipes-core/junit/junit_3.8.2.bb b/recipes-core/junit/junit_3.8.2.bb
index 57dd459c..a1fd265a 100644
--- a/recipes-core/junit/junit_3.8.2.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/junit/junit_3.8.2.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LICENSE = "CPL-1.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://cpl-v10.html;md5=67a4b75d42edcbd82d2878eba913691b"
 PR = "r1"
 
-SRC_URI = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/junit/junit${PV}.zip"
+SRC_URI = "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/junit/junit${PV}.zip"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/junit${PV}"
 
diff --git a/recipes-core/xalan-j/xalan-j_2.7.1.bb b/recipes-core/xalan-j/xalan-j_2.7.1.bb
index 5e72a347..d09f9f93 100644
--- a/recipes-core/xalan-j/xalan-j_2.7.1.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/xalan-j/xalan-j_2.7.1.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ PR = "r2"
 DEPENDS = "xerces-j regexp jlex cup jaxp1.3 bcel"
 
 SRC_URI = "\
-	http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/${BPN}/${BPN}_2_7_1-src.tar.gz;name=archive \
+	https://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/${BPN}/source/${BPN}_2_7_1-src.tar.gz;name=archive \
 	https://dlcdn.apache.org/commons/bsf/source/bsf-src-2.4.0.tar.gz;name=bsf \
 	"
 
diff --git a/recipes-core/xml-commons/xml-commons-resolver1.1_1.2.bb b/recipes-core/xml-commons/xml-commons-resolver1.1_1.2.bb
index 42ce7035..b5d13cd8 100644
--- a/recipes-core/xml-commons/xml-commons-resolver1.1_1.2.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/xml-commons/xml-commons-resolver1.1_1.2.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
 PR = "r1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.resolver.txt;md5=d229da563da18fe5d58cd95a6467d584"
 
-SRC_URI = "http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/commons/xml-commons-resolver-${PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI = "https://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/commons/binaries/xml-commons-resolver-${PV}.tar.gz"
 
 inherit java-library