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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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+
+  <groupId>cloud.cosmic</groupId>
+  <artifactId>cosmic</artifactId>
+  <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+  <name>Apache CloudStack</name>
+  <description>Apache CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastructure as a Service”) cloud orchestration platform.</description>
+  <url>http://www.cloudstack.org</url>
+
+  <prerequisites>
+    <maven>3.0.4</maven>
+  </prerequisites>
+
+  <properties>
+    <cs.jdk.version>1.7</cs.jdk.version>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
+
+    <cs.log4j.version>1.2.17</cs.log4j.version>
+    <cs.log4j.extras.version>1.2.17</cs.log4j.extras.version>
+    <cs.cglib.version>3.1</cs.cglib.version>
+    <cs.dbcp.version>1.4</cs.dbcp.version>
+    <cs.pool.version>1.6</cs.pool.version>
+    <cs.codec.version>1.10</cs.codec.version>
+    <cs.configuration.version>1.10</cs.configuration.version>
+    <cs.collections.version>3.2.2</cs.collections.version>
+    <cs.logging.version>1.1.1</cs.logging.version>
+    <cs.discovery.version>0.5</cs.discovery.version>
+    <cs.ejb.version>3.0</cs.ejb.version>
+    <!-- do not forget to also upgrade hamcrest library with junit -->
+    <cs.junit.version>4.11</cs.junit.version>
+    <cs.hamcrest.version>1.3</cs.hamcrest.version>
+    <cs.bcprov.version>1.46</cs.bcprov.version>
+    <cs.jsch.version>0.1.51</cs.jsch.version>
+    <cs.jpa.version>2.1.0</cs.jpa.version>
+    <cs.jasypt.version>1.9.2</cs.jasypt.version>
+    <cs.trilead.version>1.0.0-build217</cs.trilead.version>
+    <cs.ehcache.version>2.6.9</cs.ehcache.version>
+    <cs.gson.version>1.7.2</cs.gson.version>
+    <cs.guava-testlib.version>18.0</cs.guava-testlib.version>
+    <cs.guava.version>18.0</cs.guava.version>
+    <cs.xapi.version>6.2.0-3.1</cs.xapi.version>
+    <cs.httpclient.version>4.5</cs.httpclient.version>
+    <cs.httpcore.version>4.4</cs.httpcore.version>
+    <cs.commons-httpclient.version>3.1</cs.commons-httpclient.version>
+    <cs.mysql.version>5.1.34</cs.mysql.version>
+    <cs.xstream.version>1.4.7</cs.xstream.version>
+    <cs.xmlrpc.version>3.1.3</cs.xmlrpc.version>
+    <cs.mail.version>1.4.7</cs.mail.version>
+    <cs.axis.version>1.4</cs.axis.version>
+    <cs.axis2.version>1.5.6</cs.axis2.version>
+    <cs.rampart.version>1.5.1</cs.rampart.version>
+    <cs.axiom.version>1.2.8</cs.axiom.version>
+    <cs.neethi.version>2.0.4</cs.neethi.version>
+    <cs.servlet.version>2.5</cs.servlet.version>
+    <cs.jstl.version>1.2</cs.jstl.version>
+    <cs.selenium.server.version>1.0-20081010.060147</cs.selenium.server.version>
+    <cs.vmware.api.version>5.5</cs.vmware.api.version>
+    <org.springframework.version>3.2.12.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
+    <cs.mockito.version>1.9.5</cs.mockito.version>
+    <cs.powermock.version>1.5.3</cs.powermock.version>
+    <cs.aws.sdk.version>1.10.34</cs.aws.sdk.version>
+    <cs.jackson.version>2.6.3</cs.jackson.version>
+    <cs.lang.version>2.6</cs.lang.version>
+    <cs.commons-lang3.version>3.4</cs.commons-lang3.version>
+    <cs.commons-io.version>2.4</cs.commons-io.version>
+    <cs.commons-validator.version>1.4.0</cs.commons-validator.version>
+    <cs.reflections.version>0.9.9</cs.reflections.version>
+    <cs.java-ipv6.version>0.15</cs.java-ipv6.version>
+    <cs.replace.properties>build/replace.properties</cs.replace.properties>
+    <cs.libvirt-java.version>0.5.1</cs.libvirt-java.version>
+    <cs.rados-java.version>0.2.0</cs.rados-java.version>
+    <cs.target.dir>target</cs.target.dir>
+    <cs.daemon.version>1.0.15</cs.daemon.version>
+    <cs.jna.version>4.0.0</cs.jna.version>
+    <cs.checkstyle.version>2.11</cs.checkstyle.version>
+    <cs.mycila.license.version>2.7</cs.mycila.license.version>
+    <cs.findbugs.version>3.0.1</cs.findbugs.version>
+    <cs.javadoc.version>2.10.1</cs.javadoc.version>
+    <cs.opensaml.version>2.6.1</cs.opensaml.version>
+    <cs.xml-apis.version>1.4.01</cs.xml-apis.version>
+    <cs.joda-time.version>2.8.1</cs.joda-time.version>
+  </properties>
+
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+      <distribution>repo</distribution>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
+
+  <organization>
+    <name>The Apache Software Foundation</name>
+    <url>http://www.apache.org/</url>
+  </organization>
+
+  <modules>
+    <module>cosmic-core</module>
+  </modules>
+
+  <dependencyManagement>
+    <dependencies>
+    </dependencies>
+  </dependencyManagement>
+
+
+  <build>
+    <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
+    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
+    <testSourceDirectory>test</testSourceDirectory>
+    <resources>
+      <resource>
+        <directory>${basedir}/resources</directory>
+      </resource>
+    </resources>
+    <testResources>
+      <testResource>
+        <directory>test/resources</directory>
+      </testResource>
+    </testResources>
+    <outputDirectory>${basedir}/${cs.target.dir}/classes</outputDirectory>
+    <testOutputDirectory>${basedir}/${cs.target.dir}/test-classes</testOutputDirectory>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>cloudstack-checkstyle</id>
+            <phase>none</phase>
+            <inherited>false</inherited>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+    <pluginManagement>
+      <plugins>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${cs.checkstyle.version}</version>
+          <dependencies>
+            <dependency>
+              <groupId>org.apache.cloudstack</groupId>
+              <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
+              <version>2.7</version>
+            </dependency>
+          </dependencies>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+              <id>cloudstack-checkstyle</id>
+              <phase>validate</phase>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>check</goal>
+              </goals>
+            </execution>
+          </executions>
+          <configuration>
+            <failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
+            <configLocation>cloud-style.xml</configLocation>
+            <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
+            <includeTestSourceDirectory>true</includeTestSourceDirectory>
+            <sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}</sourceDirectory>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
+          <configuration>
+            <excludeDefaultDirectories>true</excludeDefaultDirectories>
+            <filesets>
+              <fileset>
+                <directory>${cs.target.dir}</directory>
+                <includes>
+                  <include>**/*</include>
+                </includes>
+              </fileset>
+              <fileset>
+                <directory>dist</directory>
+                <includes>
+                  <include>**/*</include>
+                </includes>
+              </fileset>
+              <fileset>
+                <directory>${basedir}</directory>
+                <includes>
+                  <include>${cs.target.dir}</include>
+                  <include>dist</include>
+                </includes>
+              </fileset>
+            </filesets>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.5.1</version>
+          <executions>
+            <execution>
+              <id>default</id>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>perform</goal>
+              </goals>
+              <configuration>
+                <pomFileName>pom.xml</pomFileName>
+              </configuration>
+            </execution>
+          </executions>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>1.8</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>3.2</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <source>${cs.jdk.version}</source>
+            <target>${cs.jdk.version}</target>
+            <fork>true</fork>
+            <meminitial>128m</meminitial>
+            <maxmem>512m</maxmem>
+            <compilerArgument>-XDignore.symbol.file=true</compilerArgument>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.9</version>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.18.1</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <argLine>-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -noverify</argLine>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.18.1</version>
+        </plugin>
+      </plugins>
+    </pluginManagement>
+  </build>
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>development</id>
+      <modules>
+        <module>cosmic-core</module>
+      </modules>
+    </profile>
+   </profiles>
+</project>