diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/.mvn/extensions.xml b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/.mvn/extensions.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c06b76e1b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/.mvn/extensions.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<extensions>
+    <extension>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung.maven.polyglot</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-polyglot-json-extension</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </extension>
+</extensions>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/pom.json b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/pom.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..abd58f3127
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/pom.json
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{
+  "modelVersion": "4.0.0",
+  "groupId": "com.baeldung.maven.polyglot",
+  "artifactId": "maven-polyglot-json-app",
+  "version": "1.0-SNAPSHOT",
+  "name": "Json Maven Polyglot",
+  "parent": {
+    "groupId": "org.springframework.boot",
+    "artifactId": "spring-boot-starter-parent",
+    "version": "2.0.5.RELEASE",
+    "relativePath": null
+  },
+  "properties": {
+    "project.build.sourceEncoding": "UTF-8",
+    "project.reporting.outputEncoding": "UTF-8",
+    "maven.compiler.source": "1.8",
+    "maven.compiler.target": "1.8",
+    "java.version": "1.8"
+  },
+  "dependencies": [
+    {
+      "groupId": "org.springframework.boot",
+      "artifactId": "spring-boot-starter-web"
+    }
+  ],
+  "build": {
+    "plugins": [
+      {
+        "groupId": "org.springframework.boot",
+        "artifactId": "spring-boot-maven-plugin"
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/src/main/java/com/baeldung/maven/polyglot/MavenPolyglotApplication.java b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/src/main/java/com/baeldung/maven/polyglot/MavenPolyglotApplication.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d03116889f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/src/main/java/com/baeldung/maven/polyglot/MavenPolyglotApplication.java
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package com.baeldung.maven.polyglot;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
+
+@RestController
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class MavenPolyglotApplication {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        SpringApplication.run(MavenPolyglotApplication.class, args);
+    }
+
+    @GetMapping("/")
+    public String home(){
+        return "Hello JSON Maven Model !";
+    }
+}
diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/src/main/resources/model.json b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/src/main/resources/model.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f006582c12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-app/src/main/resources/model.json
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+{
+  "modules": [],
+  "distributionManagement": null,
+  "properties": {
+    "project.reporting.outputEncoding": "UTF-8",
+    "java.version": "1.8",
+    "maven.compiler.source": "1.8",
+    "project.build.sourceEncoding": "UTF-8",
+    "maven.compiler.target": "1.8"
+  },
+  "dependencyManagement": null,
+  "dependencies": [
+    {
+      "groupId": "org.springframework.boot",
+      "artifactId": "spring-boot-starter-web",
+      "version": null,
+      "type": "jar",
+      "classifier": null,
+      "scope": null,
+      "systemPath": null,
+      "exclusions": [],
+      "optional": null,
+      "managementKey": "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:jar"
+    }
+  ],
+  "repositories": [],
+  "pluginRepositories": [],
+  "reports": null,
+  "reporting": null,
+  "modelVersion": "4.0.0",
+  "parent": {
+    "groupId": "org.springframework.boot",
+    "artifactId": "spring-boot-starter-parent",
+    "version": "2.0.5.RELEASE",
+    "relativePath": "",
+    "id": "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-parent:pom:2.0.5.RELEASE"
+  },
+  "groupId": "com.demo.polyglot",
+  "artifactId": "maven-polyglot-app",
+  "version": "1.0.1",
+  "packaging": "jar",
+  "name": "Json Maven Polyglot",
+  "description": null,
+  "url": null,
+  "inceptionYear": null,
+  "organization": null,
+  "licenses": [],
+  "developers": [],
+  "contributors": [],
+  "mailingLists": [],
+  "prerequisites": null,
+  "scm": null,
+  "issueManagement": null,
+  "ciManagement": null,
+  "build": {
+    "plugins": [
+      {
+        "inherited": null,
+        "configuration": null,
+        "inheritanceApplied": true,
+        "groupId": "org.liquibase",
+        "artifactId": "liquibase-maven-plugin",
+        "version": "3.0.5",
+        "extensions": null,
+        "executions": [],
+        "dependencies": [],
+        "goals": null,
+        "key": "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin",
+        "id": "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin:3.0.5",
+        "executionsAsMap": {}
+      }
+    ],
+    "pluginManagement": null,
+    "defaultGoal": null,
+    "resources": [],
+    "testResources": [],
+    "directory": null,
+    "finalName": null,
+    "filters": [],
+    "sourceDirectory": null,
+    "scriptSourceDirectory": null,
+    "testSourceDirectory": null,
+    "outputDirectory": null,
+    "testOutputDirectory": null,
+    "extensions": [],
+    "pluginsAsMap": {
+      "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin": {
+        "inherited": null,
+        "configuration": null,
+        "inheritanceApplied": true,
+        "groupId": "org.liquibase",
+        "artifactId": "liquibase-maven-plugin",
+        "version": "3.0.5",
+        "extensions": null,
+        "executions": [],
+        "dependencies": [],
+        "goals": null,
+        "key": "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin",
+        "id": "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin:3.0.5",
+        "executionsAsMap": {}
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "profiles": [],
+  "modelEncoding": "UTF-8",
+  "pomFile": null,
+  "id": "com.demo.polyglot:maven-polyglot-app:jar:1.0.1",
+  "projectDirectory": null
+}
diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-extension/pom.xml b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-extension/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d5c5b7ab55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-extension/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<?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">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <groupId>com.baeldung.maven.polyglot</groupId>
+    <artifactId>maven-polyglot-json-extension</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+    <properties>
+        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
+            <version>3.5.4</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+            <version>2.9.6</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
+                <artifactId>plexus-component-metadata</artifactId>
+                <version>1.7.1</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>generate-metadata</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-extension/src/main/java/com/demo/polyglot/CustomModelProcessor.java b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-extension/src/main/java/com/demo/polyglot/CustomModelProcessor.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a1756192e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-json-extension/src/main/java/com/demo/polyglot/CustomModelProcessor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+package com.demo.polyglot;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.apache.maven.model.Model;
+import org.apache.maven.model.building.FileModelSource;
+import org.apache.maven.model.building.ModelProcessor;
+import org.apache.maven.model.io.ModelParseException;
+import org.apache.maven.model.io.ModelReader;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.component.annotations.Component;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.component.annotations.Requirement;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.util.ReaderFactory;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+@Component(role = ModelProcessor.class)
+public class CustomModelProcessor implements ModelProcessor {
+
+    private static final String XML_POM = "pom.xml";
+    private static final String JSON_POM = "pom.json";
+    private static final String JSON_EXT = ".json";
+
+    ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+    @Requirement
+    private ModelReader modelReader;
+
+    @Override
+    public File locatePom(File projectDirectory) {
+        File pomFile = new File(projectDirectory, JSON_POM);
+        if (!pomFile.exists()) {
+            pomFile = new File(projectDirectory, XML_POM);
+        }
+        return pomFile;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Model read(InputStream input, Map<String, ?> options) throws IOException, ModelParseException {
+        try (final Reader in = ReaderFactory.newPlatformReader(input)) {
+            return read(in, options);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Model read(Reader reader, Map<String, ?> options) throws IOException, ModelParseException {
+        FileModelSource source = (options != null) ? (FileModelSource) options.get(SOURCE) : null;
+        if (source != null && source.getLocation().endsWith(JSON_EXT)) {
+            Model model = objectMapper.readValue(reader, Model.class);
+            return model;
+        }
+        //It's a normal maven project with a pom.xml file
+        return modelReader.read(reader, options);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Model read(File input, Map<String, ?> options) throws IOException, ModelParseException {
+        return null;
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/.mvn/extensions.xml b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/.mvn/extensions.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cfc6275681
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/.mvn/extensions.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<extensions>
+    <extension>
+        <groupId>io.takari.polyglot</groupId>
+        <artifactId>polyglot-yaml</artifactId>
+        <version>0.3.1</version>
+    </extension>
+</extensions>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/pom.yml b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/pom.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..445e2eec3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/pom.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+modelVersion: 4.0.0
+groupId: com.baeldung.maven.polyglot
+artifactId: maven-polyglot-yml-app
+version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
+name: 'YAML Demo'
+
+properties: {maven.compiler.source: 1.8, maven.compiler.target: 1.8}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/src/main/java/com/baeldung/maven/polyglot/YamlDemoApplication.java b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/src/main/java/com/baeldung/maven/polyglot/YamlDemoApplication.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2142c7f9b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/src/main/java/com/baeldung/maven/polyglot/YamlDemoApplication.java
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package com.baeldung.maven.polyglot;
+
+public class YamlDemoApplication {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        System.out.println("Hello Maven Polyglot YAML !");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/src/main/resources/model.json b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/src/main/resources/model.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f006582c12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-polyglot/maven-polyglot-yml-app/src/main/resources/model.json
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+{
+  "modules": [],
+  "distributionManagement": null,
+  "properties": {
+    "project.reporting.outputEncoding": "UTF-8",
+    "java.version": "1.8",
+    "maven.compiler.source": "1.8",
+    "project.build.sourceEncoding": "UTF-8",
+    "maven.compiler.target": "1.8"
+  },
+  "dependencyManagement": null,
+  "dependencies": [
+    {
+      "groupId": "org.springframework.boot",
+      "artifactId": "spring-boot-starter-web",
+      "version": null,
+      "type": "jar",
+      "classifier": null,
+      "scope": null,
+      "systemPath": null,
+      "exclusions": [],
+      "optional": null,
+      "managementKey": "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:jar"
+    }
+  ],
+  "repositories": [],
+  "pluginRepositories": [],
+  "reports": null,
+  "reporting": null,
+  "modelVersion": "4.0.0",
+  "parent": {
+    "groupId": "org.springframework.boot",
+    "artifactId": "spring-boot-starter-parent",
+    "version": "2.0.5.RELEASE",
+    "relativePath": "",
+    "id": "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-parent:pom:2.0.5.RELEASE"
+  },
+  "groupId": "com.demo.polyglot",
+  "artifactId": "maven-polyglot-app",
+  "version": "1.0.1",
+  "packaging": "jar",
+  "name": "Json Maven Polyglot",
+  "description": null,
+  "url": null,
+  "inceptionYear": null,
+  "organization": null,
+  "licenses": [],
+  "developers": [],
+  "contributors": [],
+  "mailingLists": [],
+  "prerequisites": null,
+  "scm": null,
+  "issueManagement": null,
+  "ciManagement": null,
+  "build": {
+    "plugins": [
+      {
+        "inherited": null,
+        "configuration": null,
+        "inheritanceApplied": true,
+        "groupId": "org.liquibase",
+        "artifactId": "liquibase-maven-plugin",
+        "version": "3.0.5",
+        "extensions": null,
+        "executions": [],
+        "dependencies": [],
+        "goals": null,
+        "key": "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin",
+        "id": "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin:3.0.5",
+        "executionsAsMap": {}
+      }
+    ],
+    "pluginManagement": null,
+    "defaultGoal": null,
+    "resources": [],
+    "testResources": [],
+    "directory": null,
+    "finalName": null,
+    "filters": [],
+    "sourceDirectory": null,
+    "scriptSourceDirectory": null,
+    "testSourceDirectory": null,
+    "outputDirectory": null,
+    "testOutputDirectory": null,
+    "extensions": [],
+    "pluginsAsMap": {
+      "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin": {
+        "inherited": null,
+        "configuration": null,
+        "inheritanceApplied": true,
+        "groupId": "org.liquibase",
+        "artifactId": "liquibase-maven-plugin",
+        "version": "3.0.5",
+        "extensions": null,
+        "executions": [],
+        "dependencies": [],
+        "goals": null,
+        "key": "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin",
+        "id": "org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin:3.0.5",
+        "executionsAsMap": {}
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "profiles": [],
+  "modelEncoding": "UTF-8",
+  "pomFile": null,
+  "id": "com.demo.polyglot:maven-polyglot-app:jar:1.0.1",
+  "projectDirectory": null
+}