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+<!--
+ ! 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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <parent>
+     <groupId>org.apache.asterix.bad</groupId>
+     <artifactId>asterix-opt</artifactId>
+     <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <!-- project coordinates -->
+  <groupId>org.apache.asterix</groupId>
+  <artifactId>asterix-opt-bom</artifactId>
+  <version>0.8.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+  <name>asterix-opt-bom</name>
+  <description>BAD Extension to AsterixDB</description>
+
+  <!-- any dependencies listed here will be included in -->
+  <!-- asterix-server, etc. binary assemblies -->
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.asterix.bad</groupId>
+      <artifactId>asterix-bad</artifactId>
+      <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>