diff --git a/chef/compute/pom.xml b/chef/compute/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+	<!--
+		$HeadURL$ $Revision$ $Date$ Copyright (C) 2010 Cloud Conscious, LLC
+		<info@cloudconscious.com>
+
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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>
+	<parent>
+		<groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+		<artifactId>jclouds-chef-project</artifactId>
+		<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
+	</parent>
+	<groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+	<artifactId>jclouds-chef-compute</artifactId>
+	<name>jclouds chef compute integration</name>
+	<description>provisions nodes with jclouds and kick's off chef to configure and integrate</description>
+        <properties>
+                <!-- for example: ec2, trmk-ecloud, bluelock-vclouddirector, cloudservers, etc -->
+                <jclouds.compute.provider>YOUR_PREFERRED_PROVIDER</jclouds.compute.provider>
+                <!-- leave blank unless you have a different url to override -->
+                <jclouds.compute.endpoint></jclouds.compute.endpoint>
+                <jclouds.compute.identity>YOUR_ACCOUNT</jclouds.compute.identity>
+                <jclouds.compute.credential>YOUR_CREDENTIAL</jclouds.compute.credential>
+                <jclouds.chef.identity>YOUR_USER</jclouds.chef.identity>
+                <jclouds.chef.identity.pem>${user.home}/.chef/${jclouds.chef.identity}.pem</jclouds.chef.identity.pem>
+                <jclouds.opscodeplatform.org>YOUR_ORG</jclouds.opscodeplatform.org>
+                <jclouds.chef.endpoint>https://api.opscode.com/organizations/${jclouds.opscodeplatform.org}</jclouds.chef.endpoint>
+        </properties>
+
+	<!-- bootstrapping: need to fetch the project POM -->
+	<repositories>
+		<repository>
+			<id>jclouds-googlecode-deploy</id>
+			<url>http://jclouds.googlecode.com/svn/repo</url>
+		</repository>
+		<repository>
+			<id>jclouds-rimu-snapshots-nexus</id>
+			<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
+			<snapshots>
+				<enabled>true</enabled>
+			</snapshots>
+		</repository>
+	</repositories>
+
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jclouds-chef</artifactId>
+			<version>${project.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                        <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>jclouds-compute</artifactId>
+                        <version>${project.version}</version>
+                </dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                        <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>jclouds-compute</artifactId>
+                        <version>${project.version}</version>
+                        <type>test-jar</type>
+                        <scope>test</scope>
+                </dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                        <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>jclouds-allcompute</artifactId>
+                        <version>${project.version}</version>
+                        <scope>test</scope>
+                        <optional>true</optional>
+                </dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+        <profiles>
+                <profile>
+                        <id>live</id>
+                        <build>
+                                <plugins>
+                                        <plugin>
+                                                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                                                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                                                <executions>
+                                                        <execution>
+                                                                <id>integration</id>
+                                                                <phase>integration-test</phase>
+                                                                <goals>
+                                                                        <goal>test</goal>
+                                                                </goals>
+                                                                <configuration>
+                                                                        <excludes>
+                                                                                <exclude>none</exclude>
+                                                                        </excludes>
+                                                                        <includes>
+                                                                                <include>**/*LiveTest.java</include>
+                                                                        </includes>
+                                                                        <systemProperties>
+                                                                                <property>
+                                                                                        <name>jclouds.compute.provider</name>
+                                                                                        <value>${jclouds.compute.provider}</value>
+                                                                                </property>
+                                                                                <property>
+                                                                                        <name>jclouds.compute.endpoint</name>
+                                                                                        <value>${jclouds.compute.endpoint}</value>
+                                                                                </property>
+                                                                                <property>
+                                                                                        <name>jclouds.compute.identity</name>
+                                                                                        <value>${jclouds.compute.identity}</value>
+                                                                                </property>
+                                                                                <property>
+                                                                                        <name>jclouds.compute.credential</name>
+                                                                                        <value>${jclouds.compute.credential}</value>
+                                                                                </property>
+                                                                                <property>
+                                                                                        <name>jclouds.chef.identity</name>
+                                                                                        <value>${jclouds.chef.identity}</value>
+                                                                                </property>
+                                                                                <property>
+                                                                                        <name>jclouds.chef.identity.pem</name>
+                                                                                        <value>${jclouds.chef.identity.pem}</value>
+                                                                                </property>
+                                                                                <property>
+                                                                                        <name>jclouds.chef.endpoint</name>
+                                                                                        <value>${jclouds.chef.endpoint}</value>
+                                                                                </property>
+                                                                        </systemProperties>
+                                                                </configuration>
+                                                        </execution>
+                                                </executions>
+                                        </plugin>
+                                </plugins>
+                        </build>
+                </profile>
+        </profiles>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/chef/pom.xml b/chef/pom.xml
index 9af1509dea..05b43def2d 100644
--- a/chef/pom.xml
+++ b/chef/pom.xml
@@ -34,5 +34,6 @@
     <modules>
         <module>core</module>
         <module>servlet</module>
+        <module>compute</module>
     </modules>
 </project>