diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/README.md b/hbase-archetypes/README.md
index 3af1f8b1fab..7997b562153 100644
--- a/hbase-archetypes/README.md
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/README.md
@@ -81,11 +81,15 @@ of the new archetype. (It may be most straightforward to simply copy the `src`
 and `pom.xml` components from one of the existing exemplar projects, replace
 the `src/main` and `src/test` code, and modify the `pom.xml` file's
 `<dependencies>`, `<artifactId>`,` <name>`, and `<description>` elements.)
-2. Modify the `hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml` file: (a) add the new exemplar
-project to the `<modules>` element, and (b) add appropriate `<execution>`
+2. Modify the `hbase-archetypes/pom.xml` file: add a new `<module>` subelement
+to the `<modules>` element, with the new exemplar project's subdirectory name
+as its value.
+3. Modify the `hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml` file: (a) add a new `<*.dir>`
+subelement to the `<properties>` element, with the new exemplar project's
+subdirectory name as its value, and (b) add appropriate `<execution>`
 elements and `<transformationSet>` elements within the `<plugin>` elements
 (using the existing entries from already-existing exemplar projects as a guide).
-3. Add appropriate entries for the new exemplar project to the
+4. Add appropriate entries for the new exemplar project to the
 `createArchetypes.sh` and `installArchetypes.sh` scripts in the
 `hbase-archetype-builder` subdirectory (using the existing entries as a guide).
 
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/createArchetypes.sh b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/createArchetypes.sh
index 3aeb1c38134..067fbd944e3 100755
--- a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/createArchetypes.sh
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/createArchetypes.sh
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ buildArchetypeSubdir=target/build-archetype
 cd /"$workingDir"/../hbase-client-project/$buildArchetypeSubdir
 mvn archetype:create-from-project
 
+# CREATE hbase-shaded-client archetype
+cd /"$workingDir"/../hbase-shaded-client-project/$buildArchetypeSubdir
+mvn archetype:create-from-project
+
 # add entries for additional archetypes above this comment (modeled on entries above)
 
 cd "$workingDir"
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/installArchetypes.sh b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/installArchetypes.sh
index 74f118eaea8..1067a1f954a 100755
--- a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/installArchetypes.sh
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/installArchetypes.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ archetypeSourceSubdir=target/generated-sources/archetype
 cd /"$workingDir"/../hbase-client-project/$buildArchetypeSubdir/$archetypeSourceSubdir
 mvn install
 
+# INSTALL hbase-shaded-client archetype
+cd /"$workingDir"/../hbase-shaded-client-project/$buildArchetypeSubdir/$archetypeSourceSubdir
+mvn install
+
 # add entries for additional archetypes above this comment (modeled on entries above)
 
 cd "$workingDir"
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml
index ae84b1ae49f..1bbdb45d467 100644
--- a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-archetype-builder/pom.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
     <temp.exemplar.subdir>target/temp</temp.exemplar.subdir>
     <temp.archetype.subdir>target/temp-arch</temp.archetype.subdir>
     <hbase-client.dir>hbase-client-project</hbase-client.dir>
+    <hbase-shaded-client.dir>hbase-shaded-client-project</hbase-shaded-client.dir>
     <!-- For new archetype, add corresponding *.dir property above this comment.
          (See hbase-archetypes/README.txt for details on adding new archetype.) -->
   </properties>
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@
         <version>2.7</version>
         <executions>
           <!-- maven-resources-plugin copies each exemplar project's src directory to
-            ${build.archetype.subdir} subdirectory, and copy each project's pom.xml file
+            ${build.archetype.subdir} subdirectory, and copies each project's pom.xml file
             to ${temp.exemplar.subdir} subdirectory. (Filtering during copy replaces
             ${project-version} with literal value). The pom.xml files are processed
             further using xml-maven-plugin for xslt transformation, below. -->
@@ -93,6 +94,43 @@
               </resources>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <id>hbase-shaded-client__copy-src-to-build-archetype-subdir</id>
+            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>copy-resources</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <outputDirectory>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}/${build.archetype.subdir}</outputDirectory>
+              <resources>
+                <resource>
+                  <directory>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}</directory>
+                  <includes>
+                    <include>src/**</include>
+                  </includes>
+                </resource>
+              </resources>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <id>hbase-shaded-client__copy-pom-to-temp-for-xslt-processing</id>
+            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>copy-resources</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <outputDirectory>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}/${temp.exemplar.subdir}</outputDirectory>
+              <resources>
+                <resource>
+                  <directory>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}</directory>
+                  <filtering>true</filtering> <!-- filtering replaces ${project.version} with literal -->
+                  <includes>
+                    <include>pom.xml</include>
+                  </includes>
+                 </resource>
+              </resources>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
           <!-- For new archetype, add pair of <execution> elements (modeled on existing elements) above this comment. -->
 
           <!-- maven-resources-plugin copies each archetype project's pom.xml file
@@ -116,6 +154,24 @@
               </resources>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <id>hbase-shaded-client-ARCHETYPE__copy-pom-to-temp-for-xslt-processing</id>
+            <phase>prepare-package</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>copy-resources</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <outputDirectory>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}/${temp.archetype.subdir}</outputDirectory>
+              <resources>
+                <resource>
+                  <directory>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}/${build.archetype.subdir}/${archetype.source.subdir}</directory>
+                  <includes>
+                    <include>pom.xml</include>
+                  </includes>
+                 </resource>
+              </resources>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
           <!-- For new archetype, add <execution> element (modeled on existing elements) above this comment. -->
         </executions>
       </plugin>
@@ -142,6 +198,14 @@
                   <outputDir>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-client.dir}/${build.archetype.subdir}</outputDir>
                   <stylesheet>modify_exemplar_pom.xsl</stylesheet>
                 </transformationSet>
+                <transformationSet>
+                  <dir>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}/${temp.exemplar.subdir}</dir>
+                  <includes>
+                    <include>pom.xml</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <outputDir>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}/${build.archetype.subdir}</outputDir>
+                  <stylesheet>modify_exemplar_pom.xsl</stylesheet>
+                </transformationSet>
                 <!-- For new archetype, add <transformationSet> element (modeled on existing elements) above this comment. -->
               </transformationSets>
             </configuration>
@@ -164,6 +228,14 @@
                   <outputDir>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-client.dir}/${build.archetype.subdir}/${archetype.source.subdir}</outputDir>
                   <stylesheet>modify_archetype_pom.xsl</stylesheet>
                 </transformationSet>
+                <transformationSet>
+                  <dir>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}/${temp.archetype.subdir}</dir>
+                  <includes>
+                    <include>pom.xml</include>
+                  </includes>
+                  <outputDir>/${project.basedir}/../${hbase-shaded-client.dir}/${build.archetype.subdir}/${archetype.source.subdir}</outputDir>
+                  <stylesheet>modify_archetype_pom.xsl</stylesheet>
+                </transformationSet>
                 <!-- For new archetype, add <transformationSet> element (modeled on existing elements) above this comment. -->
               </transformationSets>
             </configuration>
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/pom.xml b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6d237d3f85d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+<?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <!--
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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 at
+ *
+ *     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.
+ */
+-->
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <artifactId>hbase-archetypes</artifactId>
+    <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+    <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <relativePath>..</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>hbase-shaded-client-project</artifactId>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <name>Apache HBase - Exemplar for hbase-shaded-client archetype</name>
+  <description>Exemplar project for archetype with hbase-shaded-client dependency</description>
+  <properties>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    <maven.compiler.source>${compileSource}</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>${compileSource}</maven.compiler.target>
+    <surefire.version>2.19</surefire.version>
+    <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
+  </properties>
+
+  <build>
+    <pluginManagement>
+      <plugins>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${surefire.version}</version>
+        </plugin>
+      </plugins>
+    </pluginManagement>
+  </build>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <!-- Dependency for hbase-testing-util must precede compile-scoped dependencies. -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-testing-util</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-shaded-client</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <version>${junit.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/main/java/org/apache/hbase/archetypes/exemplars/shaded_client/HelloHBase.java b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/main/java/org/apache/hbase/archetypes/exemplars/shaded_client/HelloHBase.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1c6b8bb9bd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/main/java/org/apache/hbase/archetypes/exemplars/shaded_client/HelloHBase.java
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+/**
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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 at
+ *
+ *     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 org.apache.hbase.archetypes.exemplars.shaded_client;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.NavigableMap;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HColumnDescriptor;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.NamespaceDescriptor;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.NamespaceNotFoundException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Admin;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Connection;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Delete;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Put;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Table;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
+
+/**
+ * Successful running of this application requires access to an active instance
+ * of HBase. For install instructions for a standalone instance of HBase, please
+ * refer to https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#quickstart
+ */
+public final class HelloHBase {
+
+  protected static final String MY_NAMESPACE_NAME = "myTestNamespace";
+  static final TableName MY_TABLE_NAME = TableName.valueOf("myTestTable");
+  static final byte[] MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME = Bytes.toBytes("cf");
+  static final byte[] MY_FIRST_COLUMN_QUALIFIER
+          = Bytes.toBytes("myFirstColumn");
+  static final byte[] MY_SECOND_COLUMN_QUALIFIER
+          = Bytes.toBytes("mySecondColumn");
+  static final byte[] MY_ROW_ID = Bytes.toBytes("rowId01");
+
+  // Private constructor included here to avoid checkstyle warnings
+  private HelloHBase() {
+  }
+
+  public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException {
+    final boolean deleteAllAtEOJ = true;
+
+    /**
+     * ConnectionFactory#createConnection() automatically looks for
+     * hbase-site.xml (HBase configuration parameters) on the system's
+     * CLASSPATH, to enable creation of Connection to HBase via Zookeeper.
+     */
+    try (Connection connection = ConnectionFactory.createConnection();
+            Admin admin = connection.getAdmin()) {
+
+      admin.getClusterStatus(); // assure connection successfully established
+      System.out.println("\n*** Hello HBase! -- Connection has been "
+              + "established via Zookeeper!!\n");
+
+      createNamespaceAndTable(admin);
+
+      System.out.println("Getting a Table object for [" + MY_TABLE_NAME
+              + "] with which to perform CRUD operations in HBase.");
+      try (Table table = connection.getTable(MY_TABLE_NAME)) {
+
+        putRowToTable(table);
+        getAndPrintRowContents(table);
+
+        if (deleteAllAtEOJ) {
+          deleteRow(table);
+        }
+      }
+
+      if (deleteAllAtEOJ) {
+        deleteNamespaceAndTable(admin);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Invokes Admin#createNamespace and Admin#createTable to create a namespace
+   * with a table that has one column-family.
+   *
+   * @param admin Standard Admin object
+   * @throws IOException If IO problem encountered
+   */
+  static void createNamespaceAndTable(final Admin admin) throws IOException {
+
+    if (!namespaceExists(admin, MY_NAMESPACE_NAME)) {
+      System.out.println("Creating Namespace [" + MY_NAMESPACE_NAME + "].");
+
+      admin.createNamespace(NamespaceDescriptor
+              .create(MY_NAMESPACE_NAME).build());
+    }
+    if (!admin.tableExists(MY_TABLE_NAME)) {
+      System.out.println("Creating Table [" + MY_TABLE_NAME.getNameAsString()
+              + "], with one Column Family ["
+              + Bytes.toString(MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME) + "].");
+
+      admin.createTable(new HTableDescriptor(MY_TABLE_NAME)
+              .addFamily(new HColumnDescriptor(MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME)));
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Invokes Table#put to store a row (with two new columns created 'on the
+   * fly') into the table.
+   *
+   * @param table Standard Table object (used for CRUD operations).
+   * @throws IOException If IO problem encountered
+   */
+  static void putRowToTable(final Table table) throws IOException {
+
+    table.put(new Put(MY_ROW_ID).addColumn(MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME,
+            MY_FIRST_COLUMN_QUALIFIER,
+            Bytes.toBytes("Hello")).addColumn(MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME,
+                    MY_SECOND_COLUMN_QUALIFIER,
+                    Bytes.toBytes("World!")));
+
+    System.out.println("Row [" + Bytes.toString(MY_ROW_ID)
+            + "] was put into Table ["
+            + table.getName().getNameAsString() + "] in HBase;\n"
+            + "  the row's two columns (created 'on the fly') are: ["
+            + Bytes.toString(MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME) + ":"
+            + Bytes.toString(MY_FIRST_COLUMN_QUALIFIER)
+            + "] and [" + Bytes.toString(MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME) + ":"
+            + Bytes.toString(MY_SECOND_COLUMN_QUALIFIER) + "]");
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Invokes Table#get and prints out the contents of the retrieved row.
+   *
+   * @param table Standard Table object
+   * @throws IOException If IO problem encountered
+   */
+  static void getAndPrintRowContents(final Table table) throws IOException {
+
+    Result row = table.get(new Get(MY_ROW_ID));
+
+    System.out.println("Row [" + Bytes.toString(row.getRow())
+            + "] was retrieved from Table ["
+            + table.getName().getNameAsString()
+            + "] in HBase, with the following content:");
+
+    for (Entry<byte[], NavigableMap<byte[], byte[]>> colFamilyEntry
+            : row.getNoVersionMap().entrySet()) {
+      String columnFamilyName = Bytes.toString(colFamilyEntry.getKey());
+
+      System.out.println("  Columns in Column Family [" + columnFamilyName
+              + "]:");
+
+      for (Entry<byte[], byte[]> columnNameAndValueMap
+              : colFamilyEntry.getValue().entrySet()) {
+
+        System.out.println("    Value of Column [" + columnFamilyName + ":"
+                + Bytes.toString(columnNameAndValueMap.getKey()) + "] == "
+                + Bytes.toString(columnNameAndValueMap.getValue()));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Checks to see whether a namespace exists.
+   *
+   * @param admin Standard Admin object
+   * @param namespaceName Name of namespace
+   * @return true If namespace exists
+   * @throws IOException If IO problem encountered
+   */
+  static boolean namespaceExists(final Admin admin, final String namespaceName)
+          throws IOException {
+    try {
+      admin.getNamespaceDescriptor(namespaceName);
+    } catch (NamespaceNotFoundException e) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Invokes Table#delete to delete test data (i.e. the row)
+   *
+   * @param table Standard Table object
+   * @throws IOException If IO problem is encountered
+   */
+  static void deleteRow(final Table table) throws IOException {
+    System.out.println("Deleting row [" + Bytes.toString(MY_ROW_ID)
+            + "] from Table ["
+            + table.getName().getNameAsString() + "].");
+    table.delete(new Delete(MY_ROW_ID));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Invokes Admin#disableTable, Admin#deleteTable, and Admin#deleteNamespace to
+   * disable/delete Table and delete Namespace.
+   *
+   * @param admin Standard Admin object
+   * @throws IOException If IO problem is encountered
+   */
+  static void deleteNamespaceAndTable(final Admin admin) throws IOException {
+    if (admin.tableExists(MY_TABLE_NAME)) {
+      System.out.println("Disabling/deleting Table ["
+              + MY_TABLE_NAME.getNameAsString() + "].");
+      admin.disableTable(MY_TABLE_NAME); // Disable a table before deleting it.
+      admin.deleteTable(MY_TABLE_NAME);
+    }
+    if (namespaceExists(admin, MY_NAMESPACE_NAME)) {
+      System.out.println("Deleting Namespace [" + MY_NAMESPACE_NAME + "].");
+      admin.deleteNamespace(MY_NAMESPACE_NAME);
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/main/java/org/apache/hbase/archetypes/exemplars/shaded_client/package-info.java b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/main/java/org/apache/hbase/archetypes/exemplars/shaded_client/package-info.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..754be16069c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/main/java/org/apache/hbase/archetypes/exemplars/shaded_client/package-info.java
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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 at
+ *
+ *     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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * This package provides fully-functional exemplar Java code demonstrating
+ * simple usage of the hbase-client API, for incorporation into a Maven
+ * archetype with hbase-shaded-client dependency.
+ */
+package org.apache.hbase.archetypes.exemplars.shaded_client;
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/main/resources/log4j.properties b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d7c4552f92d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you 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 at
+#
+#   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.
+
+# Define some default values that can be overridden by system properties
+hbase.root.logger=INFO,console
+hbase.security.logger=INFO,console
+hbase.log.dir=.
+hbase.log.file=hbase.log
+
+# Define the root logger to the system property "hbase.root.logger".
+log4j.rootLogger=${hbase.root.logger}
+
+# Logging Threshold
+log4j.threshold=ALL
+
+#
+# Daily Rolling File Appender
+#
+log4j.appender.DRFA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.DRFA.File=${hbase.log.dir}/${hbase.log.file}
+
+# Rollver at midnight
+log4j.appender.DRFA.DatePattern=.yyyy-MM-dd
+
+# 30-day backup
+#log4j.appender.DRFA.MaxBackupIndex=30
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+
+# Pattern format: Date LogLevel LoggerName LogMessage
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t] %c{2}: %m%n
+
+# Rolling File Appender properties
+hbase.log.maxfilesize=256MB
+hbase.log.maxbackupindex=20
+
+# Rolling File Appender
+log4j.appender.RFA=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.RFA.File=${hbase.log.dir}/${hbase.log.file}
+
+log4j.appender.RFA.MaxFileSize=${hbase.log.maxfilesize}
+log4j.appender.RFA.MaxBackupIndex=${hbase.log.maxbackupindex}
+
+log4j.appender.RFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.RFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t] %c{2}: %m%n
+
+#
+# Security audit appender
+#
+hbase.security.log.file=SecurityAuth.audit
+hbase.security.log.maxfilesize=256MB
+hbase.security.log.maxbackupindex=20
+log4j.appender.RFAS=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.RFAS.File=${hbase.log.dir}/${hbase.security.log.file}
+log4j.appender.RFAS.MaxFileSize=${hbase.security.log.maxfilesize}
+log4j.appender.RFAS.MaxBackupIndex=${hbase.security.log.maxbackupindex}
+log4j.appender.RFAS.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.RFAS.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n
+log4j.category.SecurityLogger=${hbase.security.logger}
+log4j.additivity.SecurityLogger=false
+#log4j.logger.SecurityLogger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.security.access.AccessController=TRACE
+#log4j.logger.SecurityLogger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.security.visibility.VisibilityController=TRACE
+
+#
+# Null Appender
+#
+log4j.appender.NullAppender=org.apache.log4j.varia.NullAppender
+
+#
+# console
+# Add "console" to rootlogger above if you want to use this
+#
+log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
+log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t] %c{2}: %m%n
+
+# Custom Logging levels
+
+log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=INFO
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem=DEBUG
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase=INFO
+# Make these two classes INFO-level. Make them DEBUG to see more zk debug.
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZKUtil=INFO
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZooKeeperWatcher=INFO
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.dfs=DEBUG
+# Set this class to log INFO only otherwise its OTT
+# Enable this to get detailed connection error/retry logging.
+# log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation=TRACE
+
+
+# Uncomment this line to enable tracing on _every_ RPC call (this can be a lot of output)
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.ipc.HBaseServer.trace=DEBUG
+
+# Uncomment the below if you want to remove logging of client region caching'
+# and scan of hbase:meta messages
+# log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation=INFO
+# log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner=INFO
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/test/java/org/apache/hbase/archetypes/exemplars/shaded_client/TestHelloHBase.java b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/test/java/org/apache/hbase/archetypes/exemplars/shaded_client/TestHelloHBase.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c30b348db91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/hbase-shaded-client-project/src/test/java/org/apache/hbase/archetypes/exemplars/shaded_client/TestHelloHBase.java
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+/**
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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 at
+ *
+ *     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 org.apache.hbase.archetypes.exemplars.shaded_client;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.NamespaceDescriptor;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Admin;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Put;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Table;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.testclassification.MediumTests;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
+import org.junit.AfterClass;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
+
+/**
+ * Unit testing for HelloHBase.
+ */
+@Category(MediumTests.class)
+public class TestHelloHBase {
+
+  private static final HBaseTestingUtility TEST_UTIL
+          = new HBaseTestingUtility();
+
+  @BeforeClass
+  public static void beforeClass() throws Exception {
+    TEST_UTIL.startMiniCluster(1);
+  }
+
+  @AfterClass
+  public static void afterClass() throws Exception {
+    TEST_UTIL.shutdownMiniCluster();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testNamespaceExists() throws Exception {
+    final String NONEXISTENT_NAMESPACE = "xyzpdq_nonexistent";
+    final String EXISTING_NAMESPACE = "pdqxyz_myExistingNamespace";
+    boolean exists;
+    Admin admin = TEST_UTIL.getHBaseAdmin();
+
+    exists = HelloHBase.namespaceExists(admin, NONEXISTENT_NAMESPACE);
+    assertEquals("#namespaceExists failed: found nonexistent namespace.",
+            false, exists);
+
+    admin.createNamespace
+        (NamespaceDescriptor.create(EXISTING_NAMESPACE).build());
+    exists = HelloHBase.namespaceExists(admin, EXISTING_NAMESPACE);
+    assertEquals("#namespaceExists failed: did NOT find existing namespace.",
+            true, exists);
+    admin.deleteNamespace(EXISTING_NAMESPACE);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testCreateNamespaceAndTable() throws Exception {
+    Admin admin = TEST_UTIL.getHBaseAdmin();
+    HelloHBase.createNamespaceAndTable(admin);
+
+    boolean namespaceExists
+            = HelloHBase.namespaceExists(admin, HelloHBase.MY_NAMESPACE_NAME);
+    assertEquals("#createNamespaceAndTable failed to create namespace.",
+            true, namespaceExists);
+
+    boolean tableExists = admin.tableExists(HelloHBase.MY_TABLE_NAME);
+    assertEquals("#createNamespaceAndTable failed to create table.",
+            true, tableExists);
+
+    admin.disableTable(HelloHBase.MY_TABLE_NAME);
+    admin.deleteTable(HelloHBase.MY_TABLE_NAME);
+    admin.deleteNamespace(HelloHBase.MY_NAMESPACE_NAME);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testPutRowToTable() throws IOException {
+    Admin admin = TEST_UTIL.getHBaseAdmin();
+    admin.createNamespace
+        (NamespaceDescriptor.create(HelloHBase.MY_NAMESPACE_NAME).build());
+    Table table
+            = TEST_UTIL.createTable
+                (HelloHBase.MY_TABLE_NAME, HelloHBase.MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME);
+
+    HelloHBase.putRowToTable(table);
+    Result row = table.get(new Get(HelloHBase.MY_ROW_ID));
+    assertEquals("#putRowToTable failed to store row.", false, row.isEmpty());
+
+    TEST_UTIL.deleteTable(HelloHBase.MY_TABLE_NAME);
+    admin.deleteNamespace(HelloHBase.MY_NAMESPACE_NAME);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testDeleteRow() throws IOException {
+    Admin admin = TEST_UTIL.getHBaseAdmin();
+    admin.createNamespace
+        (NamespaceDescriptor.create(HelloHBase.MY_NAMESPACE_NAME).build());
+    Table table
+            = TEST_UTIL.createTable
+                (HelloHBase.MY_TABLE_NAME, HelloHBase.MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME);
+
+    table.put(new Put(HelloHBase.MY_ROW_ID).
+            addColumn(HelloHBase.MY_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME,
+                    HelloHBase.MY_FIRST_COLUMN_QUALIFIER,
+                    Bytes.toBytes("xyz")));
+    HelloHBase.deleteRow(table);
+    Result row = table.get(new Get(HelloHBase.MY_ROW_ID));
+    assertEquals("#deleteRow failed to delete row.", true, row.isEmpty());
+
+    TEST_UTIL.deleteTable(HelloHBase.MY_TABLE_NAME);
+    admin.deleteNamespace(HelloHBase.MY_NAMESPACE_NAME);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/hbase-archetypes/pom.xml b/hbase-archetypes/pom.xml
index 07542d07537..6681fb2abb1 100644
--- a/hbase-archetypes/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-archetypes/pom.xml
@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@
 
   <modules>
     <module>hbase-client-project</module>
+    <module>hbase-shaded-client-project</module>
     <!-- For new archetype, add exemplar project above this comment.
-         (See hbase-archetypes/README.txt for details on adding new archetype.)  -->
+         (See hbase-archetypes/README.md for details on adding new archetype.)  -->
     <module>hbase-archetype-builder</module>
   </modules>