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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<!--
-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.
--->
-
-<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>maven</artifactId>
-    <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
-    <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  </parent>
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <artifactId>maven-plugin-descriptor</artifactId>
-  <name>Maven Plugin Descriptor Model</name>
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.modello</groupId>
-        <artifactId>modello-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <configuration>
-          <model>src/main/mdo/lifecycle.mdo</model>
-          <version>1.0.0</version>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
-      <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
-      <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.maven.artifact</groupId>
-      <artifactId>maven-artifact</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
-      <artifactId>plexus-container-default</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
-</project>