diff --git a/tools/ant-plugin/pom.xml b/tools/ant-plugin/pom.xml
index 4ab05e5266..497ffc249c 100644
--- a/tools/ant-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/tools/ant-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -1,17 +1,39 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   $HeadURL$
+   $Revision$
+   $Date$
+
+   Copyright (C) 2009 Adrian Cole <adrian@jclouds.org>
+
+   ====================================================================
+   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.html 
+
+   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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-    <parent>
-            <artifactId>jclouds-tools-project</artifactId>
-            <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
-            <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-            <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-        </parent>
-   
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-tools-project</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
     <artifactId>jclouds-ant-plugin</artifactId>
-    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
@@ -19,11 +41,10 @@
             <version>1.7.1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
             <artifactId>jclouds-rimuhosting</artifactId>
-            <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
-
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/getpath/pom.xml b/tools/getpath/pom.xml
index 80888aaaf9..7e6bd38a95 100644
--- a/tools/getpath/pom.xml
+++ b/tools/getpath/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,38 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   $HeadURL$
+   $Revision$
+   $Date$
+
+   Copyright (C) 2009 Adrian Cole <adrian@jclouds.org>
+
+   ====================================================================
+   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.html 
+
+   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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-    <parent>
-        <artifactId>jclouds-tools-project</artifactId>
-        <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
-        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-tools-project</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
     <artifactId>jclouds-getpath</artifactId>
     <name>jclouds getpath</name>
     <description>jclouds blobstore tool that downloads a container path to a local directory</description>
@@ -51,7 +76,6 @@
         <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
                     <archive>
@@ -92,7 +116,6 @@
             <build>
                 <plugins>
                     <plugin>
-                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
diff --git a/tools/pom.xml b/tools/pom.xml
index 2fbd1b6dfa..dd7e51ba67 100644
--- a/tools/pom.xml
+++ b/tools/pom.xml
@@ -26,17 +26,18 @@
    ====================================================================
  -->
 <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>
-        <artifactId>jclouds-project</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-project</artifactId>
         <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../project/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
-    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>jclouds-tools-project</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <name>jclouds tools project</name>
     <modules>
+        <module>ant-plugin</module>    
         <module>getpath</module>
         <module>vfs</module>
     </modules>
diff --git a/tools/vfs/pom.xml b/tools/vfs/pom.xml
index 834c6a07d7..7701a2ae7a 100644
--- a/tools/vfs/pom.xml
+++ b/tools/vfs/pom.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 <?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">
-    <parent>
-        <artifactId>jclouds-tools-project</artifactId>
-        <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
-        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-tools-project</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
     <artifactId>jclouds-vfs</artifactId>
     <name>jclouds blobstore-vfs integration</name>
     <description>jclouds blobstore integration with apache commons vfs </description>
@@ -89,7 +88,6 @@
                     </systemProperties>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
-
             <plugin>
                 <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
@@ -125,7 +123,6 @@
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
-
     <profiles>
         <profile>
             <id>live</id>
@@ -150,7 +147,6 @@
                             <excludes>
                                 <exclude>none</exclude>
                             </excludes>
-
                         </configuration>
                     </plugin>
                 </plugins>