diff --git a/asterix-tools/pom.xml b/asterix-tools/pom.xml
index 5a8ea70..62176d9 100644
--- a/asterix-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-tools/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-<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">
+<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-tools</artifactId>
-	<version>0.0.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
 	<build>
 		<plugins>
@@ -21,6 +20,29 @@
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 			<plugin>
+				<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<id>aqlclient</id>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>jar</goal>
+						</goals>
+						<phase>package</phase>
+						<configuration>
+							<classifier>aqlclient</classifier>
+							<archive>
+								<manifest>
+									<MainClass>edu.uci.ics.asterix.tools.aqlclient.AqlClient</MainClass>
+								</manifest>
+							</archive>
+							<includes>
+								<include>**/uci/ics/asterix/tools/aqlclient/*</include>
+							</includes>
+						</configuration>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
 				<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>2.7.2</version>
 				<executions>
@@ -112,6 +134,18 @@
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+			<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+			<version>4.2.2</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+			<artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
+			<version>4.2.2</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
 			<groupId>junit</groupId>
 			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
 			<version>4.8.1</version>
diff --git a/asterix-tools/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/tools/aqlclient/AqlClient.java b/asterix-tools/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/tools/aqlclient/AqlClient.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..911b68b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-tools/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/tools/aqlclient/AqlClient.java
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * Licensed 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 from
+ * 
+ *     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 edu.uci.ics.asterix.tools.aqlclient;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
+import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
+import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
+import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
+
+/**
+ * This class is to automate AQL queries for benchmarking.
+ * The code is written by Pouria for the purpose of benchmarking ASTERIX.
+ */
+public class AqlClient {
+
+    static ArrayList<String> qFiles;
+    static ArrayList<String> qNames;
+
+    /*
+     * This code loads a set of AQL-Queries and runs them against Asterix. It
+     * runs the queries for a number of iterations, specified by the user. For
+     * each query it shows the Hyracks time, Asterix Time, and Client time on
+     * the screen, while it also dumps its stats into an output file, to make it
+     * persistent for future use/reference.
+     */
+    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
+        /*
+         * Arguments: args0 - Path to the file, that contains list of query
+         * files. The assumption is that each AQL query, is saved in a file, and
+         * its path is mentioned in arg[0]. Each line of arg[0] file, denotes
+         * one query file. args1 - IP-Address of CC args2 - Path to the output
+         * file, for dumping stats args3 - Number of iterations, you want the
+         * simulation to be run args4 - Set it to true, so you stats, on the
+         * console, as queries are running.
+         */
+        if (args.length != 5) {
+            System.out
+                    .println("Usage: [0]=List-of-Query-Files, [1]=ccIPadr, [2]=outputFile, [3]=Iteration# , [4]=boolean-showOnConsole ");
+            return;
+        }
+        qFiles = new ArrayList<String>();
+        qNames = new ArrayList<String>();
+
+        loadQueriesPaths(args[0]);
+        String ccUrl = args[1];
+        String outputFile = args[2];
+        int iteration = Integer.parseInt(args[3]);
+        boolean showOnConsole = Boolean.parseBoolean(args[4]);
+
+        PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new File(outputFile));
+        pw.println("Code\tStatus\tName\tHyracksTime\tAsterixTime\tClientTime\n");
+
+        DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
+        HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://" + ccUrl + ":19001");
+        List<NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
+        nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("hyracks-port", "1098"));
+        nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("hyracks-ip", ccUrl));
+        nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("display-result", "true"));
+        nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("query", null)); // it will get its
+                                                         // value in the loop
+                                                         // below
+
+        int ixToremove = nvps.size() - 1;
+        try {
+            for (int i = 0; i < iteration; i++) {
+                for (int x = 0; x < qFiles.size(); x++) {
+                    nvps.remove(ixToremove);
+                    String query = readQueryFromFile(qFiles.get(x));
+                    String qName = qNames.get(x);
+                    System.out.println("\n\nNow Running Query " + qName + " in iteration " + i);
+                    nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("query", query));
+
+                    httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps));
+                    long s = System.currentTimeMillis();
+                    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
+                    long e = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
+                    String status = response.getStatusLine().toString();
+                    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
+                    String content = EntityUtils.toString(entity);
+                    EntityUtils.consume(entity);
+
+                    double[] times = extractStats(content);
+                    double endToend = ((double) (e - s)) / 1000.00; // This is
+                                                                    // the
+                                                                    // client-time
+                                                                    // (end to
+                                                                    // end delay
+                                                                    // from
+                                                                    // client's
+                                                                    // perspective)
+                    pw.print(status + "\t" + qName + "\t" + times[0] + "\t" + times[1] + "\t" + endToend + "\n");
+
+                    if (showOnConsole) {
+                        // System.out.println("Iteration "+i+"\n"+content+"\n");
+                        // //Uncomment this line, if you want to see the whole
+                        // content of the returned HTML page
+                        System.out.print(qName + "\t" + status + "\t" + times[0] + "\t" + times[1] + "\t" + endToend
+                                + " (iteration " + (i) + ")\n");
+                    }
+                }
+                pw.println();
+            }
+        } finally {
+            pw.close();
+            httpPost.releaseConnection();
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    // Assumption: It contains one query file path per line
+    private static void loadQueriesPaths(String qFilesPath) throws Exception {
+        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(qFilesPath));
+        String str;
+        while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
+            qFiles.add(str.trim());
+            int nameIx = str.lastIndexOf('/');
+            qNames.add(new String(str.substring(nameIx + 1)));
+        }
+        in.close();
+    }
+
+    private static String readQueryFromFile(String filePath) throws Exception {
+        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filePath));
+        String query = "";
+        String str;
+        while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
+            query += str + "\n";
+        }
+        in.close();
+        return query;
+    }
+
+    private static double[] extractStats(String content) {
+        int hyracksTimeIx = content.indexOf("<PRE>Duration:");
+        if (hyracksTimeIx < 0) {
+            return new double[] { -1, -1 };
+        }
+        int endHyracksTimeIx = content.indexOf("</PRE>", hyracksTimeIx);
+        double hTime = Double.parseDouble(content.substring(hyracksTimeIx + 14, endHyracksTimeIx));
+
+        int totalTimeSIx = content.indexOf("Duration", endHyracksTimeIx);
+        if (totalTimeSIx < 0) {
+            return new double[] { hTime, -1 };
+        }
+        int totalTimeEIx = content.indexOf("\n", totalTimeSIx);
+        double tTime = Double.parseDouble(content.substring(totalTimeSIx + 10, totalTimeEIx));
+
+        return new double[] { hTime, tTime };
+    }
+
+}
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