diff --git a/asterix-app/pom.xml b/asterix-app/pom.xml
index b4a1a40..00e924f 100644
--- a/asterix-app/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-app/pom.xml
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
 <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>asterix</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>apache-asterixdb</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.apache.asterix</groupId>
-        <version>0.8.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.8.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>asterix-app</artifactId>
     <licenses>
@@ -32,52 +32,21 @@
             <comments>A business-friendly OSS license</comments>
         </license>
     </licenses>
+
+    <properties>
+        <appendedResourcesDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/appended-resources</appendedResourcesDirectory>
+    </properties>
+
     <build>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-                <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.0</version>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
-                        <configuration>
-                            <programs>
-                                <program>
-                                    <mainClass>org.apache.asterix.drivers.AsterixWebServer</mainClass>
-                                    <name>asterix-web</name>
-                                </program>
-                                <program>
-                                    <mainClass>org.apache.asterix.drivers.AsterixClientDriver</mainClass>
-                                    <name>asterix-cmd</name>
-                                </program>
-                                <program>
-                                    <mainClass>org.apache.asterix.drivers.AsterixCLI</mainClass>
-                                    <name>asterix-cli</name>
-                                </program>
-                            </programs>
-                            <repositoryLayout>flat</repositoryLayout>
-                            <repositoryName>lib</repositoryName>
-                        </configuration>
-                        <phase>package</phase>
                         <goals>
-                            <goal>assemble</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
-            <plugin>
-                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.2-beta-5</version>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <configuration>
-                            <descriptors>
-                                <descriptor>src/main/assembly/binary-assembly.xml</descriptor>
-                            </descriptors>
-                        </configuration>
-                        <phase>package</phase>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>attached</goal>
+                            <goal>jar</goal>
+                            <goal>test-jar</goal>
                         </goals>
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
@@ -95,48 +64,48 @@
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
-                <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>copy-external-library</id>
-                        <phase>generate-resources</phase>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>copy-resources</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                        <configuration>
-                            <outputDirectory>src/test/resources/externallib</outputDirectory>
-                            <overwrite>true</overwrite>
-                            <resources>
-                                <resource>
-                                    <directory>../asterix-external-data/target</directory>
-                                    <includes>
-                                        <include>testlib-zip-binary-assembly.zip</include>
-                                    </includes>
-                                </resource>
-                            </resources>
-                        </configuration>
-                    </execution>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>copy-beer-csv</id>
-                        <phase>generate-resources</phase>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>copy-resources</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                        <configuration>
-                            <outputDirectory>data/csv</outputDirectory>
-                            <overwrite>true</overwrite>
-                            <resources>
-                                <resource>
-                                    <directory>../asterix-external-data/src/test/resources</directory>
-                                    <includes>
-                                        <include>beer.csv</include>
-                                    </includes>
-                                </resource>
-                            </resources>
-                        </configuration>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
+    <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+    <executions>
+        <execution>
+            <id>copy-external-library</id>
+            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
+            <goals>
+                <goal>copy-resources</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+                <outputDirectory>src/test/resources/externallib</outputDirectory>
+                <overwrite>true</overwrite>
+                <resources>
+                    <resource>
+                        <directory>../asterix-external-data/target</directory>
+                        <includes>
+                            <include>testlib-zip-binary-assembly.zip</include>
+                        </includes>
+                    </resource>
+                </resources>
+            </configuration>
+        </execution>
+        <execution>
+            <id>copy-beer-csv</id>
+            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
+            <goals>
+                <goal>copy-resources</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+                <outputDirectory>data/csv</outputDirectory>
+                <overwrite>true</overwrite>
+                <resources>
+                    <resource>
+                        <directory>../asterix-external-data/src/test/resources</directory>
+                        <includes>
+                            <include>beer.csv</include>
+                        </includes>
+                    </resource>
+                </resources>
+            </configuration>
+       </execution>
+    </executions>
+</plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
     <dependencies>
@@ -285,4 +254,4 @@
             <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/LICENSE b/asterix-app/src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de42a8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ASTERIXDB COMPONENTS:
+
+AsterixDB includes a number of subcomponents with separate copyright
+notices and license terms. Your use of the source code for these
+subcomponents is subject to the terms and condition of the following
+licenses.
+
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ The MIT License
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ - jQuery (webui/static/js/jquery.min.js)
+ - Bootstrap (webui/static/js/bootstrap.min.js),
+   (webui/static/js/bootstrap.min.css),
+   (webui/static/js/bootstrap-responsive.min.css)
+ - Smoothie Charts (webui/static/js/smoothie.js)
+
+The text of The MIT License is below for convenience. Refer to the website of each project for exact details.
+
+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/appended-resources/supplemental-models.xml b/asterix-app/src/main/appended-resources/supplemental-models.xml
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..a3e53f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/appended-resources/supplemental-models.xml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../../src/main/appended-resources/supplemental-models.xml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/assembly/binary-assembly.xml b/asterix-app/src/main/assembly/binary-assembly.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 91e2549..0000000
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/assembly/binary-assembly.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-<!--
- ! 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.
- !-->
-<assembly>
-	<id>binary-assembly</id>
-	<formats>
-		<format>zip</format>
-		<format>dir</format>
-	</formats>
-	<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
-	<fileSets>
-		<fileSet>
-			<directory>target/appassembler/bin</directory>
-			<outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory>
-			<fileMode>0755</fileMode>
-		</fileSet>
-		<fileSet>
-			<directory>target/appassembler/lib</directory>
-			<outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
-		</fileSet>
-	</fileSets>
-    <dependencySets>
-        <dependencySet>
-            <outputDirectory>externallib</outputDirectory>
-            <includes>
-                <include>asterix-external-data:*:zip</include>
-            </includes>
-            <unpack>false</unpack>
-            <useTransitiveDependencies>false</useTransitiveDependencies>
-        </dependencySet>
-    </dependencySets>
-</assembly>
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/test/runtime/HDFSCluster.java b/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/test/runtime/HDFSCluster.java
index 4c10eb2..d3dc541 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/test/runtime/HDFSCluster.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/test/runtime/HDFSCluster.java
@@ -21,11 +21,13 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
+import org.apache.asterix.external.dataset.adapter.GenericAdapter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.HdfsServerConstants.StartupOption;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.InputSplit;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
 import org.apache.log4j.Level;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
@@ -108,5 +110,26 @@
             cleanupLocal();
         }
     }
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        HDFSCluster cluster = new HDFSCluster();
+        cluster.setup();
+        JobConf conf = configureJobConf();
+        InputSplit[] inputSplits = conf.getInputFormat().getSplits(conf, 0);
+        for (InputSplit split : inputSplits) {
+            System.out.println("split :" + split);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static JobConf configureJobConf() throws Exception {
+        JobConf conf = new JobConf();
+        String hdfsUrl = "hdfs://127.0.0.1:31888";
+        String hdfsPath = "/asterix/extrasmalltweets.txt";
+        conf.set("fs.default.name", hdfsUrl);
+        conf.set("fs.hdfs.impl", "org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem");
+        conf.setClassLoader(GenericAdapter.class.getClassLoader());
+        conf.set("mapred.input.dir", hdfsPath);
+        conf.set("mapred.input.format.class", "org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat");
+        return conf;
+    }
 
 }