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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2016-present Open Networking Laboratory
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed 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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <artifactId>onos-incubator</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+        <version>1.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>onos-incubator-protobuf-nb</artifactId>
+    <packaging>bundle</packaging>
+
+    <properties>
+        <protobuf.version>3.0.0</protobuf.version>
+        <grpc.version>1.0.0-pre2</grpc.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-protobuf</artifactId>
+            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-stub</artifactId>
+            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <extensions>
+            <extension>
+                <groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
+                <artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.4.1.Final</version>
+            </extension>
+        </extensions>
+
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>karaf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>3.0.5</version>
+                    <extensions>true</extensions>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+
+        <plugins>
+            <!-- TODO This is included to suppress the generation of javadocs for
+                this package. There is a problem when we try to package the
+                auto-generated code's javadoc into a jar. -->
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <sourcepath>${basedir}/src/main/java/</sourcepath>
+                    <excludePackageNames>org.onosproject.grpc.net.mcast</excludePackageNames>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.xolstice.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>protobuf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>0.5.0</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <!-- The version of protoc must match protobuf-java. If you don't
+                        depend on protobuf-java directly, you will be transitively depending on the
+                        protobuf-java version that grpc depends on. -->
+                    <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:${protobuf.version}:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</protocArtifact>
+                    <pluginId>grpc-java</pluginId>
+                    <pluginArtifact>io.grpc:protoc-gen-grpc-java:${grpc.version}:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</pluginArtifact>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>compile</goal>
+                            <goal>compile-custom</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.11</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>add-source</id>
+                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>add-source</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <sources>
+                                <source>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/protobuf/java</source>
+                                <source>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/protobuf/grpc-java</source>
+                            </sources>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+</project>