diff --git a/extensions/gae/pom.xml b/extensions/gae/pom.xml
index 4132a0313d..474372d2ce 100644
--- a/extensions/gae/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/gae/pom.xml
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
-        <artifactId>jclouds-project</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-extensions-project</artifactId>
         <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../../project/pom.xml</relativePath>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
@@ -64,11 +64,6 @@
             <version>1.2.0</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${project.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
             <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
@@ -76,10 +71,10 @@
             <type>test-jar</type>
             <scope>test</scope>
             <exclusions>
-              <exclusion>
-                 <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-                 <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
-              </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/extensions/httpnio/pom.xml b/extensions/httpnio/pom.xml
index 6e2a61e62c..ec522a21a5 100644
--- a/extensions/httpnio/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/httpnio/pom.xml
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <parent>
-        <artifactId>jclouds-project</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-extensions-project</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
         <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../../project/pom.xml</relativePath>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>jclouds-httpnio</artifactId>
@@ -53,18 +53,6 @@
             <version>6.1.16</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${project.version}</version>
-            <type>test-jar</type>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${project.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpcore-nio</artifactId>
diff --git a/extensions/log4j/pom.xml b/extensions/log4j/pom.xml
index d0b417aead..cd76ccb151 100644
--- a/extensions/log4j/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/log4j/pom.xml
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
 <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">
     <parent>
-        <artifactId>jclouds-project</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-extensions-project</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
         <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../../project/pom.xml</relativePath>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>jclouds-log4j</artifactId>
@@ -46,18 +46,6 @@
     </scm>
 
     <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${project.version}</version>
-            <type>test-jar</type>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${project.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
diff --git a/extensions/pom.xml b/extensions/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ea1d4f676d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+<?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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <artifactId>jclouds-project</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.jclouds</groupId>
+        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../project/pom.xml</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <artifactId>jclouds-extensions-project</artifactId>
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+    <name>jclouds extensions project</name>
+    <modules>
+        <module>gae</module>
+        <module>httpnio</module>
+        <module>log4j</module>
+    </modules>
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jclouds-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+            <type>test-jar</type>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+</project>