diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/pom.xml b/spring-boot-starters/pom.xml
index 2b766c1cfbb..ce9af98e890 100644
--- a/spring-boot-starters/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-starters/pom.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@
 		<module>spring-boot-starter-web</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-starter-websocket</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-starter-web-services</module>
-		<module>spring-boot-starter-ws</module>
 	</modules>
 
 	<build>
diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/pom.xml b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3935dc7c0f8..00000000000
--- a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<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">
-	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-	<parent>
-		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-		<artifactId>spring-boot-starters</artifactId>
-		<version>1.5.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
-	</parent>
-	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-ws</artifactId>
-	<name>spring-boot-starter-ws (DEPRECATED)</name>
-	<description>Starter for using Spring Web Services. Deprecated as of 1.4 in favor of
-		spring-boot-starter-web-services</description>
-	<url>http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/</url>
-	<organization>
-		<name>Pivotal Software, Inc.</name>
-		<url>http://www.spring.io</url>
-	</organization>
-	<properties>
-		<main.basedir>${basedir}/../..</main.basedir>
-	</properties>
-	<dependencies>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
-		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
-		</dependency>
-	</dependencies>
-</project>
diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/starter/ws/WsStarterDeprecationWarningAutoConfiguration.java b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/starter/ws/WsStarterDeprecationWarningAutoConfiguration.java
deleted file mode 100644
index a32271268e0..00000000000
--- a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/starter/ws/WsStarterDeprecationWarningAutoConfiguration.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2012-2016 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.springframework.boot.starter.ws;
-
-import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
-
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
-
-import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-
-/**
- * {@link EnableAutoConfiguration Auto-configuration} to print a deprecation warning about
- * the starter.
- *
- * @author Stephane Nicoll
- * @since 1.4.0
- */
-@Configuration
-@Deprecated
-public class WsStarterDeprecationWarningAutoConfiguration {
-
-	private static final Log logger = LogFactory
-			.getLog(WsStarterDeprecationWarningAutoConfiguration.class);
-
-	@PostConstruct
-	public void logWarning() {
-		logger.warn("spring-boot-starter-ws is deprecated as of Spring Boot 1.4, "
-				+ "please migrate to spring-boot-starter-web-services");
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories
deleted file mode 100644
index def429f3e6b..00000000000
--- a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Auto Configure
-org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration=\
-org.springframework.boot.starter.ws.WsStarterDeprecationWarningAutoConfiguration
diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.provides b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.provides
deleted file mode 100644
index d0da5438acc..00000000000
--- a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-ws/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.provides
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-provides: spring-ws-core
\ No newline at end of file