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+<!--
+ 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.
+-->
+<assembly>
+  <id>distribution</id>
+  <formats>
+    <format>zip</format>
+    <format>tar.gz</format>
+  </formats>
+    <fileSets>
+  <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/bin</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory>
+      <useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
+      <includes>
+        <include>*.jar</include>
+      </includes>
+  </fileSet>
+   <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/bundle</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>bundle</outputDirectory>
+      <useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
+      <includes>
+        <include>*.jar</include>
+      </includes>
+  </fileSet>
+  <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/conf</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>conf</outputDirectory>
+      <useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
+      <includes>
+        <include>*.properties</include>
+      </includes>
+  </fileSet>
+  <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/doc</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>doc</outputDirectory>
+      <useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
+      <includes>
+        <include>**</include>
+      </includes>                                                                                    
+  </fileSet>
+  <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}</directory>
+      <includes>
+        <include>README*</include>
+        <include>LICENSE*</include>
+        <include>NOTICE*</include>
+      </includes>
+      <outputDirectory>.</outputDirectory>
+      <useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
+  </fileSet>
+  </fileSets>
+</assembly>