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+<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>
+		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
+		<version>0.0.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	</parent>
+	<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
+	<artifactId>asterix-external-data</artifactId>
+	<version>0.0.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+	<build>
+		<plugins>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>2.0.2</version>
+				<configuration>
+					<source>1.6</source>
+					<target>1.6</target>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+				<artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>1.0</version>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<configuration>
+							<programs>
+								<program>
+									<mainClass>edu.uci.ics.asterix.drivers.AsterixWebServer</mainClass>
+									<name>asterix-web</name>
+								</program>
+								<program>
+									<mainClass>edu.uci.ics.asterix.drivers.AsterixClientDriver</mainClass>
+									<name>asterix-cmd</name>
+								</program>
+							</programs>
+							<repositoryLayout>flat</repositoryLayout>
+							<repositoryName>lib</repositoryName>
+						</configuration>
+						<phase>package</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>assemble</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>2.7.2</version>
+				<configuration>
+					<!--
+						doesn't work from m2eclipse, currently
+						<additionalClasspathElements>
+						<additionalClasspathElement>${basedir}/src/main/resources</additionalClasspathElement>
+						</additionalClasspathElements>
+					-->
+					<forkMode>pertest</forkMode>
+					<argLine>-enableassertions -Xmx${test.heap.size}m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
+						-Djava.util.logging.config.file=src/test/resources/logging.properties</argLine>
+					<includes>
+						<include>**/*TestSuite.java</include>
+						<include>**/*Test.java</include>
+					</includes>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
+		</plugins>
+	</build>
+
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+			<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
+			<version>2.5</version>
+			<type>jar</type>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>junit</groupId>
+			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+			<version>4.8.1</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+			<artifactId>hyracks-control-cc</artifactId>
+			<version>0.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+			<artifactId>hyracks-control-nc</artifactId>
+			<version>0.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
+			<artifactId>asterix-om</artifactId>
+			<version>0.0.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<type>jar</type>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
+			<artifactId>asterix-runtime</artifactId>
+			<version>0.0.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<type>jar</type>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.kenai.nbpwr</groupId>
+			<artifactId>org-apache-commons-io</artifactId>
+			<version>1.3.1-201002241208</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                        <groupId>org.twitter4j</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>twitter4j-core</artifactId>
+                        <version>2.2.3</version>
+                </dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>
+                        <version>0.20.2</version>
+                        <type>jar</type>
+                        <scope>compile</scope>
+                </dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                        <groupId>net.java.dev.rome</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>rome-fetcher</artifactId>
+                        <version>1.0.0</version>
+                        <type>jar</type>
+                        <scope>compile</scope>
+                </dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                         <groupId>rome</groupId>
+                         <artifactId>rome</artifactId>
+                         <version>1.0.1-modified-01</version>
+                </dependency>
+<dependency>
+            <groupId>jdom</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jdom</artifactId>
+            <version>1.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+
+</project>