diff --git a/asterixdb-jdbc/asterix-jdbc-driver/pom.xml b/asterixdb-jdbc/asterix-jdbc-driver/pom.xml
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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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <parent>
+    <artifactId>apache-asterixdb</artifactId>
+    <groupId>org.apache.asterix</groupId>
+    <version>0.9.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>asterix-jdbc-driver</artifactId>
+
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>Apache License, Version 2.0</name>
+      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+      <distribution>repo</distribution>
+      <comments>A business-friendly OSS license</comments>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
+
+  <properties>
+    <root.dir>${basedir}/..</root.dir>
+    <source.jdk.version>1.8</source.jdk.version>
+    <target.jdk.version>1.8</target.jdk.version>
+    <source.java.package.path>org/apache/asterix/jdbc/</source.java.package.path>
+    <implementation.title>Apache AsterixDB JDBC Driver</implementation.title>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.asterix</groupId>
+      <artifactId>asterix-jdbc-core</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <archive>
+            <manifestSections>
+              <manifestSection>
+                <name>${source.java.package.path}</name>
+                <manifestEntries>
+                  <Implementation-Title>${implementation.title}</Implementation-Title>
+                  <Implementation-Version>${project.version}</Implementation-Version>
+                  <Implementation-Vendor>${project.organization.name}</Implementation-Vendor>
+                </manifestEntries>
+              </manifestSection>
+            </manifestSections>
+          </archive>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>shade</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
+              <shadedClassifierName>dist</shadedClassifierName>
+              <transformers>
+                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ApacheLicenseResourceTransformer"/>
+                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ApacheNoticeResourceTransformer">
+                  <addHeader>false</addHeader>
+                </transformer>
+                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.PluginXmlResourceTransformer"/>
+                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
+              </transformers>
+              <filters>
+                <filter>
+                  <artifact>org.apache.asterix:asterix-jdbc-core</artifact>
+                  <excludes>
+                    <exclude>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</exclude>
+                  </excludes>
+                </filter>
+                <filter>
+                  <artifact>org.apache.httpcomponents:*</artifact>
+                  <excludes>
+                    <exclude>module-info.class</exclude>
+                    <exclude>META-INF/DEPENDENCIES</exclude>
+                    <exclude>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</exclude>
+                  </excludes>
+                </filter>
+                <filter>
+                  <artifact>commons-logging:*</artifact>
+                  <excludes>
+                    <exclude>module-info.class</exclude>
+                    <exclude>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</exclude>
+                  </excludes>
+                </filter>
+                <filter>
+                  <artifact>commons-codec:*</artifact>
+                  <excludes>
+                    <exclude>module-info.class</exclude>
+                    <exclude>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</exclude>
+                  </excludes>
+                </filter>
+                <filter>
+                  <artifact>com.fasterxml.jackson.core:*</artifact>
+                  <excludes>
+                    <exclude>module-info.class</exclude>
+                    <exclude>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</exclude>
+                  </excludes>
+                </filter>
+              </filters>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/asterixdb-jdbc/asterix-jdbc-driver/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/jdbc/Driver.java b/asterixdb-jdbc/asterix-jdbc-driver/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/jdbc/Driver.java
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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.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.asterix.jdbc;
+
+import org.apache.asterix.jdbc.core.ADBDriverBase;
+
+public final class Driver extends ADBDriverBase implements java.sql.Driver {
+
+    private static final String DRIVER_SCHEME = "asterixdb:";
+
+    private static final int DEFAULT_API_PORT = 19002;
+
+    static {
+        setupLogging(Driver.class);
+        registerDriver(new Driver());
+    }
+
+    public Driver() {
+        super(DRIVER_SCHEME, DEFAULT_API_PORT);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asterixdb-jdbc/asterix-jdbc-driver/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver b/asterixdb-jdbc/asterix-jdbc-driver/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver
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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.
+#
+org.apache.asterix.jdbc.Driver
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