diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e0b0dd280..7a56fc5d8 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@
 [submodule "skywalking-ui"]
 	path = skywalking-ui
 	url = https://github.com/apache/skywalking-rocketbot-ui.git
-[submodule "test/e2e/e2e-ttl/e2e-ttl-es/src/main/proto"]
-	path = test/e2e/e2e-ttl/e2e-ttl-es/src/main/proto
+[submodule "test/e2e/e2e-protocol/src/main/proto"]
+	path = test/e2e/e2e-protocol/src/main/proto
 	url = https://github.com/apache/skywalking-data-collect-protocol.git
diff --git a/apm-sniffer/apm-agent-core/pom.xml b/apm-sniffer/apm-agent-core/pom.xml
index 2f154a5c6..386bead99 100644
--- a/apm-sniffer/apm-agent-core/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-sniffer/apm-agent-core/pom.xml
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <jetty.version>9.4.2.v20170220</jetty.version>
-        <grpc.version>1.26.0</grpc.version>
         <guava.version>20.0</guava.version>
         <bytebuddy.version>1.10.7</bytebuddy.version>
         <wiremock.version>2.6.0</wiremock.version>
@@ -77,18 +75,6 @@
             <version>${bytebuddy.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
-            <version>${jetty.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jetty-servlet</artifactId>
-            <version>${jetty.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.tomakehurst</groupId>
             <artifactId>wiremock</artifactId>
diff --git a/test/e2e/e2e-protocol/pom.xml b/test/e2e/e2e-protocol/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fec694857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/e2e-protocol/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  ~ The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+  ~
+  -->
+
+<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">
+    <parent>
+        <artifactId>apache-skywalking-e2e</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.apache.skywalking</groupId>
+        <version>1.0.0</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>e2e-protocol</artifactId>
+
+    <properties>
+        <grpc.version>1.14.0</grpc.version>
+        <os-maven-plugin.version>1.5.0.Final</os-maven-plugin.version>
+        <protobuf-maven-plugin.version>0.5.0</protobuf-maven-plugin.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-protobuf</artifactId>
+            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-stub</artifactId>
+            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-netty</artifactId>
+            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
+                <artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${os-maven-plugin.version}</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>initialize</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>detect</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.xolstice.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>protobuf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${protobuf-maven-plugin.version}</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <!--
+                      The version of protoc must match protobuf-java. If you don't depend on
+                      protobuf-java directly, you will be transitively depending on the
+                      protobuf-java version that grpc depends on.
+                    -->
+                    <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.3.0:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
+                    </protocArtifact>
+                    <pluginId>grpc-java</pluginId>
+                    <pluginArtifact>io.grpc:protoc-gen-grpc-java:1.8.0:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
+                    </pluginArtifact>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>compile</goal>
+                            <goal>compile-custom</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/e2e/e2e-protocol/src/main/proto b/test/e2e/e2e-protocol/src/main/proto
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..a2aaec537
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/e2e-protocol/src/main/proto
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit a2aaec537073cd22ac62cec1b41d03ae9cf11124
diff --git a/test/e2e/e2e-ttl/e2e-ttl-es/pom.xml b/test/e2e/e2e-ttl/e2e-ttl-es/pom.xml
index 137f9857c..6b7765d41 100644
--- a/test/e2e/e2e-ttl/e2e-ttl-es/pom.xml
+++ b/test/e2e/e2e-ttl/e2e-ttl-es/pom.xml
@@ -44,38 +44,14 @@
             <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-            <artifactId>grpc-protobuf</artifactId>
-            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-            <artifactId>grpc-stub</artifactId>
-            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-            <artifactId>grpc-netty</artifactId>
-            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
+            <groupId>org.apache.skywalking</groupId>
+            <artifactId>e2e-protocol</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
         <plugins>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
-                <artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>${os-maven-plugin.version}</version>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <phase>initialize</phase>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>detect</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>io.fabric8</groupId>
                 <artifactId>docker-maven-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -162,31 +138,6 @@
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.xolstice.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>protobuf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>${protobuf-maven-plugin.version}</version>
-                <configuration>
-                    <!--
-                      The version of protoc must match protobuf-java. If you don't depend on
-                      protobuf-java directly, you will be transitively depending on the
-                      protobuf-java version that grpc depends on.
-                    -->
-                    <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.3.0:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
-                    </protocArtifact>
-                    <pluginId>grpc-java</pluginId>
-                    <pluginArtifact>io.grpc:protoc-gen-grpc-java:1.8.0:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
-                    </pluginArtifact>
-                </configuration>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>compile</goal>
-                            <goal>compile-custom</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
diff --git a/test/e2e/e2e-ttl/e2e-ttl-es/src/main/proto b/test/e2e/e2e-ttl/e2e-ttl-es/src/main/proto
deleted file mode 160000
index 7b244ff7e..000000000
--- a/test/e2e/e2e-ttl/e2e-ttl-es/src/main/proto
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 7b244ff7ec350910295eee85633e02d92a6f6b1c
diff --git a/test/e2e/pom.xml b/test/e2e/pom.xml
index 7f1f935a5..45c775757 100644
--- a/test/e2e/pom.xml
+++ b/test/e2e/pom.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
         <module>e2e-ttl</module>
         <module>e2e-6.x-agent-7.x-oap-compatibility</module>
         <module>e2e-profile</module>
+        <module>e2e-protocol</module>
     </modules>
 
     <properties>