diff --git a/demos/getpath/pom.xml b/demos/getpath/pom.xml
index 192a73e6ee..c932f7c3af 100644
--- a/demos/getpath/pom.xml
+++ b/demos/getpath/pom.xml
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
-        <artifactId>jclouds-tools-project</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-demos-project</artifactId>
         <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
-    <artifactId>jclouds-getpath</artifactId>
+    <artifactId>jclouds-demo-getpath</artifactId>
     <name>jclouds getpath</name>
     <description>jclouds blobstore tool that downloads a container path to a local directory</description>
     <properties>
@@ -43,18 +43,6 @@
             <artifactId>jclouds-allblobstore</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.jclouds.driver</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jclouds-log4j</artifactId>
-            <version>${project.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-           <groupId>log4j</groupId>
-           <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
-           <version>1.2.16</version>
-           <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/demos/googleappengine/pom.xml b/demos/googleappengine/pom.xml
index 532ad18fe5..beccf05e6b 100644
--- a/demos/googleappengine/pom.xml
+++ b/demos/googleappengine/pom.xml
@@ -24,13 +24,10 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
-        <artifactId>jclouds-project</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-demos-project</artifactId>
         <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../../project/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
-    <groupId>org.jclouds.examples</groupId>
-    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <artifactId>jclouds-googleappengine-example</artifactId>
+    <artifactId>jclouds-demo-googleappengine</artifactId>
     <packaging>war</packaging>
     <name>JClouds Sample for Google App Engine</name>
     <description>JClouds Sample for Google App Engine</description>
@@ -122,7 +119,7 @@
             <artifactId>appengine-tools-sdk</artifactId>
             <version>1.4.3</version>
             <scope>system</scope>
-            <systemPath>${env.APPENGINE_HOME}/lib/appengine-tools-api.jar</systemPath>
+            <systemPath>${appengine.home}/lib/appengine-tools-api.jar</systemPath>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     <build>
diff --git a/demos/perftest/pom.xml b/demos/perftest/pom.xml
index 2e43ce01e2..1176a9da01 100644
--- a/demos/perftest/pom.xml
+++ b/demos/perftest/pom.xml
@@ -1,33 +1,33 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-        <!--
+<!--
 
 
-                Copyright (C) 2010 Cloud Conscious, LLC. <info@cloudconscious.com>
+        Copyright (C) 2010 Cloud Conscious, LLC. <info@cloudconscious.com>
 
-                ====================================================================
-                Licensed 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
+        ====================================================================
+        Licensed 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.
-                ====================================================================
-        -->
+        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.
+        ====================================================================
+-->
 <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-project</artifactId>
-    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <relativePath>../../project/pom.xml</relativePath>
-  </parent>
-  <artifactId>s3-perftest</artifactId>
+	<parent>
+		<groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+		<artifactId>jclouds-demos-project</artifactId>
+		<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	</parent>
+	<artifactId>jclouds-demo-perftest</artifactId>
   <name>jclouds Performance test verses Amazon SDK implementation</name>
   <description>Performance test verses Amazon SDK implementation</description>
+  
   <properties>
     <test.aws-s3.loopcount>100</test.aws-s3.loopcount>
     <test.aws-s3.identity>${test.aws.identity}</test.aws-s3.identity>
@@ -36,19 +36,7 @@
     <jclouds.version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</jclouds.version>
     <gae.version>1.4.3</gae.version>
   </properties>
-  <!-- bootstrapping: need to fetch the project POM -->
-  <repositories>
-    <repository>
-      <id>jclouds-sona-snapshots-nexus</id>
-      <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>false</enabled>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-      </snapshots>
-    </repository>
-  </repositories>
+
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jclouds.provider</groupId>
@@ -70,11 +58,6 @@
       <artifactId>jclouds-enterprise</artifactId>
       <version>${jclouds.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jclouds.driver</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jclouds-log4j</artifactId>
-      <version>${jclouds.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jclouds.driver</groupId>
       <artifactId>jclouds-apachehc</artifactId>
@@ -90,14 +73,7 @@
       <artifactId>appengine-tools-sdk</artifactId>
       <version>${gae.version}</version>
       <scope>system</scope>
-      <systemPath>${env.APPENGINE_HOME}/lib/appengine-tools-api.jar</systemPath>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
-      <version>${jclouds.version}</version>
-      <type>test-jar</type>
-      <scope>test</scope>
+      <systemPath>${appengine.home}/lib/appengine-tools-api.jar</systemPath>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
@@ -126,7 +102,7 @@
       <artifactId>appengine-tools-sdk</artifactId>
       <version>${gae.version}</version>
       <scope>system</scope>
-      <systemPath>${env.APPENGINE_HOME}/lib/appengine-tools-api.jar</systemPath>
+      <systemPath>${appengine.home}/lib/appengine-tools-api.jar</systemPath>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.appengine</groupId>