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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2014 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>
+        <artifactId>onos-providers</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+        <version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+
+
+    <artifactId>onos-lldp-provider-common</artifactId>
+    <packaging>bundle</packaging>
+
+    <description>Common code for providers that use LLDP.</description>
+
+    <dependencies>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+            <artifactId>onlab-osgi</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.11</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
+            <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+            <artifactId>onos-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+            <classifier>tests</classifier>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+</project>