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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-bmv2-protocol</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <packaging>bundle</packaging>
+
+    <artifactId>onos-bmv2-protocol-api</artifactId>
+
+   <dependencies>
+       <dependency>
+           <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+           <artifactId>onos-api</artifactId>
+           <version>${project.version}</version>
+       </dependency>
+       <dependency>
+           <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+           <artifactId>org.apache.felix.scr.annotations</artifactId>
+       </dependency>
+   </dependencies>
+
+</project>
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