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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2014-2015 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">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+    <artifactId>onos-archetypes</artifactId>
+    <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <artifactId>onos-rest-archetype</artifactId>
+  <packaging>maven-archetype</packaging>
+
+  <name>onos-rest-archetype</name>
+  <description>ONOS REST API bundle archetype</description>
+
+</project>