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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<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>com.google.flatbuffers</groupId>
+  <artifactId>flatbuffers-java</artifactId>
+  <version>0.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <name>FlatBuffers Java API</name>
+  <description>
+    Memory Efficient Serialization Library
+  </description>
+
+  <properties>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+  </properties>
+
+  <url>https://github.com/google/flatbuffers</url>
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>Apache License V2.0</name>
+      <url>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/flatbuffers/master/LICENSE.txt</url>
+      <distribution>repo</distribution>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
+  <scm>
+    <url>https://github.com/google/flatbuffers</url>
+    <connection>
+      scm:git:https://github.com/google/flatbuffers.git
+    </connection>
+  </scm>
+  <dependencies>
+  </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <sourceDirectory>./</sourceDirectory>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <source>1.6</source>
+          <target>1.6</target>
+        </configuration>
+        <version>3.2</version>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <includes>
+            <include>**/*Test.java</include>
+          </includes>
+        </configuration>
+        <version>2.18.1</version>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.3</version>
+        <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>
+        <version>2.9.1</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>attach-javadocs</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>jar</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
+