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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>org.mbassy</groupId>
+    <artifactId>mbassador</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0.7.RC-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <name>mbassador</name>
+    <description>
+        Mbassador is a fast and flexible message bus system following the publish subscribe pattern.
+        It is designed for ease of use and aims to be feature rich and extensible
+        while preserving resource efficiency and performance.
+
+        It features:
+        declarative listener definition via annotations,
+        sync and/or async message delivery,
+        weak-references,
+        message filtering,
+        ordering of message handlers etc.
+
+    </description>
+
+    <url>https://github.com/bennidi/mbassador</url>
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>MIT license</name>
+            <url>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php</url>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+    <scm>
+        <url>scm:git:git@github.com:bennidi/mbassador.git</url>
+        <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:bennidi/mbassador.git</connection>
+    </scm>
+    <developers>
+
+        <developer>
+            <id>bennidi</id>
+            <name>Benjamin Diedrichsen</name>
+            <timezone>+1</timezone>
+        </developer>
+    </developers>
+
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <project.build.java.version>1.6</project.build.java.version>
+        <github.url>file://${project.basedir}/mvn-local-repo</github.url>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.10</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <distributionManagement>
+        <repository>
+            <id>mbassador-github-repo</id>
+            <url>${github.url}</url>
+        </repository>
+    </distributionManagement>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>${project.build.java.version}</source>
+                    <target>${project.build.java.version}</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.4</version>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <skipTests>false</skipTests>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <!-- bind the source attaching to package phase -->
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>attach-sources</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>jar</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>attach-javadocs</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>jar</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>release-sign-artifacts</id>
+            <activation>
+                <property>
+                    <name>performRelease</name>
+                    <value>true</value>
+                </property>
+            </activation>
+            <build>
+                <plugins>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>1.4</version>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+                                <phase>verify</phase>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>sign</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                </plugins>
+            </build>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
+</project>