diff --git a/catalog-core/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/SchemaCatalogException.java b/catalog-core/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/SchemaCatalogException.java
index 77be3fe..ff4871a 100644
--- a/catalog-core/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/SchemaCatalogException.java
+++ b/catalog-core/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/SchemaCatalogException.java
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
 
 public class SchemaCatalogException extends RuntimeException {
 
-    public SchemaCatalogException(final String message) {
-        super(message);
-    }
-
     public SchemaCatalogException(final String message, final Throwable cause) {
         super(message, cause);
     }
diff --git a/catalog-generation-plugin-it/pom.xml b/catalog-generation-plugin-it/pom.xml
index 1b66ed6..24e07ff 100644
--- a/catalog-generation-plugin-it/pom.xml
+++ b/catalog-generation-plugin-it/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
                             <basePackageName>uk.gov.justice.events.pojo</basePackageName>
                             <sourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/raml/json/schema
                             </sourceDirectory>
-                            <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources
+                            <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-resources
                             </outputDirectory>
                             <includes>
                                 <include>**/*.json</include>
diff --git a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationContext.java b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationContext.java
index f241a8d..a5cd1c7 100644
--- a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationContext.java
+++ b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationContext.java
@@ -2,20 +2,10 @@
 
 public class CatalogGenerationContext {
 
-    private static final String CATALOG_GENERATION_ROOT = "target/generated-catalogs";
-    private static final String CATALOG_PATH = "json/schema/catalog";
     private static final String CATALOG_FILENAME = "schema_catalog.json";
     private static final String JSON_SCHEMA_PATH = "raml/json/schema/";
     public static final String AN_EMPTY_STRING = "";
 
-    public String getCatalogGenerationRoot() {
-        return CATALOG_GENERATION_ROOT;
-    }
-
-    public String getCatalogPath() {
-        return CATALOG_PATH;
-    }
-
     public String getCatalogFilename() {
         return CATALOG_FILENAME;
     }
diff --git a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationException.java b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationException.java
index 1a5c44b..11c8b74 100644
--- a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationException.java
+++ b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationException.java
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 package uk.gov.justice.schema.catalog.generation;
 
-import uk.gov.justice.schema.catalog.SchemaCatalogException;
-
-public class CatalogGenerationException extends SchemaCatalogException {
+public class CatalogGenerationException extends RuntimeException {
 
     public CatalogGenerationException(final String message) {
         super(message);
diff --git a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationRunner.java b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationRunner.java
index 065e180..65ebbcd 100644
--- a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationRunner.java
+++ b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationRunner.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.List;
 
 public class CatalogGenerationRunner {
@@ -24,13 +25,13 @@ public CatalogGenerationRunner(
         this.urlConverter = urlConverter;
     }
 
-    public void generateCatalog(final String catalogName, final List<URI> schemaFiles) {
+    public void generateCatalog(final String catalogName, final List<URI> schemaFiles, final Path catalogGenerationPath) {
 
         final Catalog catalog = catalogObjectGenerator.generate(
                 catalogName,
                 asUrls(schemaFiles));
 
-        catalogWriter.write(catalog);
+        catalogWriter.write(catalog, catalogGenerationPath);
     }
 
     private List<URL> asUrls(final List<URI> schemaFiles) {
diff --git a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogWriter.java b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogWriter.java
index 09a3aeb..919d36d 100644
--- a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogWriter.java
+++ b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogWriter.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
@@ -14,6 +15,8 @@
 
 public class CatalogWriter {
 
+    private static final String CATALOG_SUB_DIRECTORY = "json/schema";
+
     private final ObjectMapper objectMapper;
     private final CatalogGenerationContext catalogGenerationContext;
 
@@ -23,13 +26,11 @@ public CatalogWriter(final ObjectMapper objectMapper, final CatalogGenerationCon
     }
 
     @SuppressWarnings("ResultOfMethodCallIgnored")
-    public void write(final Catalog catalog) {
+    public void write(final Catalog catalog, final Path catalogGenerationPath) {
 
-        final String catalogJson = writeAsString(catalog);
 
-        final String catalogGenerationRoot = catalogGenerationContext.getCatalogGenerationRoot();
-        final String catalogPath = catalogGenerationContext.getCatalogPath();
-        final File outputDirectory = new File(catalogGenerationRoot, catalogPath);
+        final String catalogJson = writeAsString(catalog);
+        final File outputDirectory = catalogGenerationPath.resolve(CATALOG_SUB_DIRECTORY).toFile();
         outputDirectory.mkdirs();
 
         final File outputFile = new File(outputDirectory, catalogGenerationContext.getCatalogFilename());
diff --git a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/MavenCatalogGenerator.java b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/MavenCatalogGenerator.java
index c0dcf79..861bed3 100644
--- a/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/MavenCatalogGenerator.java
+++ b/catalog-generation/src/main/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/MavenCatalogGenerator.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import uk.gov.justice.schema.catalog.generation.maven.CatalogGeneratorProperties;
 
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
@@ -25,12 +26,14 @@ public MavenCatalogGenerator(final ObjectFactory objectFactory) {
     @Override
     public void run(final List<URI> schemaFiles, final GeneratorConfig generatorConfig) {
 
+        final Path catalogGenerationPath = generatorConfig.getOutputDirectory();
+
         final CatalogGenerationRunner catalogGenerationRunner = objectFactory.catalogGenerationRunner();
 
         final CatalogGeneratorProperties generatorProperties =
                 (CatalogGeneratorProperties) generatorConfig.getGeneratorProperties();
         final String catalogName = generatorProperties.getCatalogName();
 
-        catalogGenerationRunner.generateCatalog(catalogName, schemaFiles);
+        catalogGenerationRunner.generateCatalog(catalogName, schemaFiles, catalogGenerationPath);
     }
 }
diff --git a/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationContextTest.java b/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationContextTest.java
index 0879fba..a6688e0 100644
--- a/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationContextTest.java
+++ b/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationContextTest.java
@@ -14,16 +14,6 @@ public class CatalogGenerationContextTest {
     @InjectMocks
     private CatalogGenerationContext catalogGenerationContext;
 
-    @Test
-    public void shouldGetCatalogGenerationRoot() throws Exception {
-        assertThat(catalogGenerationContext.getCatalogGenerationRoot(), is("target/generated-catalogs"));
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void shouldGetCatalogPath() throws Exception {
-        assertThat(catalogGenerationContext.getCatalogPath(), is("json/schema/catalog"));
-    }
-
     @Test
     public void shouldGetCatalogFilename() throws Exception {
         assertThat(catalogGenerationContext.getCatalogFilename(), is("schema_catalog.json"));
diff --git a/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationRunnerTest.java b/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationRunnerTest.java
index cb1f9b6..00d1572 100644
--- a/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationRunnerTest.java
+++ b/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogGenerationRunnerTest.java
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ public void shouldGenerateACatalogFile() throws Exception {
         final String catalogName = "catalog name";
         final URI schemaFile = new URI("file:/schemaFile.json");
         final URL schemaFileUrl = schemaFile.toURL();
+        final Path catalogGenerationPath = Paths.get(new URI("file:/path/to/catalog/generation/directory"));
 
         final Catalog catalog = mock(Catalog.class);
 
@@ -46,8 +49,8 @@ public void shouldGenerateACatalogFile() throws Exception {
                 catalogName,
                 singletonList(schemaFileUrl))).thenReturn(catalog);
 
-        catalogGenerationRunner.generateCatalog(catalogName, singletonList(schemaFile));
+        catalogGenerationRunner.generateCatalog(catalogName, singletonList(schemaFile), catalogGenerationPath);
 
-        verify(catalogWriter).write(catalog);
+        verify(catalogWriter).write(catalog, catalogGenerationPath);
     }
 }
diff --git a/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogWriterTest.java b/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogWriterTest.java
index 1a7c2e3..6611b63 100644
--- a/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogWriterTest.java
+++ b/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/CatalogWriterTest.java
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 
 public class CatalogWriterTest {
 
-    private static final File GENERATED_CATALOG_FILE = new File(new File("target/generated-catalogs", "json/schema/catalog"), "schema_catalog.json");
+    private static final File CATALOG_GENERATION_PATH = new File("target/test-output-directory");
+    private static final File GENERATED_CATALOG_FILE = new File(CATALOG_GENERATION_PATH + "/json/schema", "schema_catalog.json");
 
     private final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapperProducer().objectMapper();
 
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ public void shouldGenerateACatalogInTheCorrectLocationFromTheCatalogDomainObject
                 )
         );
 
-        catalogWriter.write(catalog);
+        catalogWriter.write(catalog, CATALOG_GENERATION_PATH.toPath());
 
         assertThat(GENERATED_CATALOG_FILE.exists(), is(true));
 
diff --git a/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/MavenCatalogGeneratorTest.java b/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/MavenCatalogGeneratorTest.java
index 6a81b1d..d3ae5fe 100644
--- a/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/MavenCatalogGeneratorTest.java
+++ b/catalog-generation/src/test/java/uk/gov/justice/schema/catalog/generation/MavenCatalogGeneratorTest.java
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 import uk.gov.justice.schema.catalog.generation.maven.CatalogGeneratorProperties;
 
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
@@ -34,18 +36,20 @@ public void shouldInstantiateAndRunTheCatalogGeneration() throws Exception {
 
         final String catalogName = "my catalog";
         final List<URI> schemaFiles = singletonList(new URI("/a-schema-file.json"));
+        final Path catalogGenerationPath = Paths.get(new URI("file:/path/to/catalog/generation/directory"));
 
         final CatalogGenerationRunner catalogGenerationRunner = mock(CatalogGenerationRunner.class);
         final GeneratorConfig generatorConfig = mock(GeneratorConfig.class);
         final CatalogGeneratorProperties catalogGeneratorProperties = mock(CatalogGeneratorProperties.class);
 
+        when(generatorConfig.getOutputDirectory()).thenReturn(catalogGenerationPath);
         when(objectFactory.catalogGenerationRunner()).thenReturn(catalogGenerationRunner);
         when(generatorConfig.getGeneratorProperties()).thenReturn(catalogGeneratorProperties);
         when(catalogGeneratorProperties.getCatalogName()).thenReturn(catalogName);
 
         mavenCatalogGenerator.run(schemaFiles, generatorConfig);
 
-        verify(catalogGenerationRunner).generateCatalog(catalogName, schemaFiles);
+        verify(catalogGenerationRunner).generateCatalog(catalogName, schemaFiles, catalogGenerationPath);
     }
 
     @Test