diff --git a/incubator/grpc-dependencies/pom.xml b/incubator/grpc-dependencies/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55bf19d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/incubator/grpc-dependencies/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+<?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-protobuf-dependencies</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+        <version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../protobuf-dependencies/pom.xml</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>onos-incubator-grpc-dependencies</artifactId>
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+    <properties>
+        <grpc.version>1.0.0</grpc.version>
+        <grpc.package.version>1.0.0</grpc.package.version>
+        <grpc.netty.version>4.1.3.Final</grpc.netty.version>
+        <grpc.netty.package.version>4.1.3</grpc.netty.package.version>
+        <google.auth.version>0.4.0</google.auth.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <!-- gRPC requires more recent version of netty -->
+    <dependencyManagement>
+        <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>${grpc.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+                <artifactId>grpc-netty</artifactId>
+                <version>${grpc.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+                <artifactId>grpc-auth</artifactId>
+                <version>${grpc.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                <artifactId>netty-codec</artifactId>
+                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                <artifactId>netty-transport</artifactId>
+                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                <artifactId>netty-handler</artifactId>
+                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                <artifactId>netty-buffer</artifactId>
+                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                <artifactId>netty-common</artifactId>
+                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
+        </dependencies>
+    </dependencyManagement>
+
+    <dependencies>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-core</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-protobuf</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-stub</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-netty</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>grpc-auth</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <extensions>true</extensions>
+            </plugin>
+
+        </plugins>
+
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.xolstice.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>protobuf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>0.5.0</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <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>
+                    <executions>
+                        <execution>
+                            <id>add-source</id>
+                            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
+                            <goals>
+                                <goal>add-source</goal>
+                            </goals>
+                            <configuration>
+                                <sources combine.children="append">
+                                    <source>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/protobuf/grpc-java</source>
+                                </sources>
+                            </configuration>
+                        </execution>
+                    </executions>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+    </build>
+
+
+</project>
diff --git a/incubator/grpc/pom.xml b/incubator/grpc/pom.xml
index aee92887..6a8c07f 100644
--- a/incubator/grpc/pom.xml
+++ b/incubator/grpc/pom.xml
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@
          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>
+        <artifactId>onos-incubator-grpc-dependencies</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
         <version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../grpc-dependencies/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -30,13 +31,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <onos.app.name>org.onosproject.incubator.grpc</onos.app.name>
-        <onos.app.title>gRPC dependency package</onos.app.title>
-        <protobuf.version>3.0.0</protobuf.version>
-        <grpc.version>1.0.0</grpc.version>
-        <grpc.package.version>1.0.0</grpc.package.version>
-        <grpc.netty.version>4.1.3.Final</grpc.netty.version>
-        <grpc.netty.package.version>4.1.3</grpc.netty.package.version>
-        <google.auth.version>0.4.0</google.auth.version>
+        <onos.app.title>gRPC dependency App</onos.app.title>
     </properties>
 
     <!-- gRPC requires more recent version of netty -->
@@ -128,5 +123,4 @@
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
-
 </project>
diff --git a/incubator/pom.xml b/incubator/pom.xml
index afd3f07..9a0702c 100644
--- a/incubator/pom.xml
+++ b/incubator/pom.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
         <module>core</module>
         <module>net</module>
         <module>store</module>
+        <module>protobuf-dependencies</module>
+        <module>grpc-dependencies</module>
         <module>protobuf</module>
         <module>rpc</module>
         <module>rpc-grpc</module>
diff --git a/incubator/protobuf-dependencies/pom.xml b/incubator/protobuf-dependencies/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a763d79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/incubator/protobuf-dependencies/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+<?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">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <parent>
+        <artifactId>onos-dependencies</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+        <version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../../lib/pom.xml</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+
+    <artifactId>onos-incubator-protobuf-dependencies</artifactId>
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+    <description>ProtoBuf dependecies</description>
+    <url>http://onosproject.org</url>
+
+    <properties>
+        <protobuf.version>3.0.0</protobuf.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
+            <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
+            <version>${protobuf.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <extensions>
+            <extension>
+                <groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
+                <artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.4.1.Final</version>
+            </extension>
+        </extensions>
+
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>karaf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>3.0.5</version>
+                    <extensions>true</extensions>
+                </plugin>
+
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.xolstice.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>protobuf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>0.5.0</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:${protobuf.version}:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</protocArtifact>
+                    </configuration>
+                    <executions>
+                        <execution>
+                            <goals>
+                                <goal>compile</goal>
+                            </goals>
+                        </execution>
+                    </executions>
+                </plugin>
+
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-scr-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <executions>
+                        <execution>
+                            <id>generate-scr-srcdescriptor</id>
+                            <goals>
+                                <goal>scr</goal>
+                            </goals>
+                        </execution>
+                    </executions>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <!-- avoid searching into wrong source path -->
+                        <scanClasses>true</scanClasses>
+                        <supportedProjectTypes>
+                            <supportedProjectType>bundle</supportedProjectType>
+                            <supportedProjectType>war</supportedProjectType>
+                        </supportedProjectTypes>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
+
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>1.12</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>
+                                </sources>
+                            </configuration>
+                        </execution>
+                    </executions>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+
+        </pluginManagement>
+
+    </build>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/incubator/protobuf-nb/pom.xml b/incubator/protobuf-nb/pom.xml
index 37a97bf..7802ef1 100644
--- a/incubator/protobuf-nb/pom.xml
+++ b/incubator/protobuf-nb/pom.xml
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@
          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>
+        <artifactId>onos-incubator-grpc-dependencies</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
         <version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../grpc-dependencies/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -29,47 +30,27 @@
     <packaging>bundle</packaging>
 
     <properties>
-        <protobuf.version>3.0.0</protobuf.version>
-        <grpc.version>1.0.0</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
@@ -87,44 +68,11 @@
             <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>
diff --git a/incubator/protobuf/pom.xml b/incubator/protobuf/pom.xml
index 9efba04..94bc87a 100644
--- a/incubator/protobuf/pom.xml
+++ b/incubator/protobuf/pom.xml
@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@
 <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-incubator</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>onos-incubator-protobuf-dependencies</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
         <version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../protobuf-dependencies/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>onos-incubator-protobuf</artifactId>
@@ -31,12 +32,17 @@
     <properties>
         <onos.app.name>org.onosproject.incubator.protobuf</onos.app.name>
         <onos.app.title>ONOS Protocol Buffers models</onos.app.title>
-        <protobuf.version>3.0.0</protobuf.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
 
         <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+            <artifactId>onos-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
             <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
             <version>${protobuf.version}</version>
@@ -51,13 +57,6 @@
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
-        <extensions>
-            <extension>
-                <groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
-                <artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.4.1.Final</version>
-            </extension>
-        </extensions>
 
         <pluginManagement>
             <plugins>
@@ -102,59 +101,23 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-scr-plugin</artifactId>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>generate-scr-srcdescriptor</id>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>scr</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-                <configuration>
-                    <!-- avoid searching into wrong source path -->
-                    <scanClasses>true</scanClasses>
-                    <supportedProjectTypes>
-                        <supportedProjectType>bundle</supportedProjectType>
-                    </supportedProjectTypes>
-                </configuration>
             </plugin>
 
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.xolstice.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>protobuf-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>0.5.0</version>
-                <configuration>
-                    <protocArtifact>com.google.protobuf:protoc:${protobuf.version}:exe:${os.detected.classifier}</protocArtifact>
-                </configuration>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>compile</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>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+                <artifactId>onos-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            </plugin>
+
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
diff --git a/incubator/rpc-grpc/pom.xml b/incubator/rpc-grpc/pom.xml
index d6eb5d5..f11580c 100644
--- a/incubator/rpc-grpc/pom.xml
+++ b/incubator/rpc-grpc/pom.xml
@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@
 <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-incubator</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>onos-incubator-grpc-dependencies</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
         <version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../grpc-dependencies/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>onos-incubator-rpc-grpc</artifactId>
@@ -36,41 +37,40 @@
             org.onosproject.incubator.protobuf,
             org.onosproject.incubator.grpc
         </onos.app.requires>
-        <protobuf.version>3.0.0</protobuf.version>
-        <grpc.version>1.0.0</grpc.version>
-        <grpc.netty.version>4.1.3.Final</grpc.netty.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
             <artifactId>onos-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
             <artifactId>onos-incubator-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
             <artifactId>onlab-osgi</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <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>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -82,12 +82,20 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
             <artifactId>onos-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
             <classifier>tests</classifier>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
+            <artifactId>onlab-junit</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
             <artifactId>onos-incubator-protobuf</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
@@ -99,6 +107,16 @@
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
+            <artifactId>org.osgi.core</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
+            <artifactId>org.osgi.compendium</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
             <artifactId>org.apache.felix.scr.annotations</artifactId>
             <scope>provided</scope>
@@ -107,13 +125,6 @@
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
-        <extensions>
-            <extension>
-                <groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
-                <artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>1.4.1.Final</version>
-            </extension>
-        </extensions>
 
         <pluginManagement>
             <plugins>
@@ -151,22 +162,6 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-scr-plugin</artifactId>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>generate-scr-srcdescriptor</id>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>scr</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-                <configuration>
-                    <!-- avoid searching into wrong source path -->
-                    <scanClasses>true</scanClasses>
-                    <supportedProjectTypes>
-                        <supportedProjectType>bundle</supportedProjectType>
-                        <supportedProjectType>war</supportedProjectType>
-                    </supportedProjectTypes>
-                </configuration>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
@@ -176,77 +171,14 @@
             <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>
 
-    <!-- gRPC requires more recent version of netty -->
-    <dependencyManagement>
-        <dependencies>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty-codec</artifactId>
-                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty-transport</artifactId>
-                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty-handler</artifactId>
-                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty-buffer</artifactId>
-                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty-common</artifactId>
-                <version>${grpc.netty.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
-        </dependencies>
-    </dependencyManagement>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/incubator/rpc-nb/pom.xml b/incubator/rpc-nb/pom.xml
index 373a84c..2f42f03 100644
--- a/incubator/rpc-nb/pom.xml
+++ b/incubator/rpc-nb/pom.xml
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@
          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>
+        <artifactId>onos-incubator-grpc-dependencies</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
         <version>1.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../grpc-dependencies/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -35,49 +36,50 @@
         <onos.app.name>org.onosproject.incubator.rpc-nb</onos.app.name>
         <onos.app.title>ONOS gRPC Northbound API</onos.app.title>
         <onos.app.requires>org.onosproject.incubator.grpc</onos.app.requires>
-        <grpc.version>1.0.0</grpc.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
             <artifactId>onos-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
             <artifactId>onos-incubator-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.onosproject</groupId>
             <artifactId>onlab-osgi</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <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>${grpc.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
             <artifactId>grpc-netty</artifactId>
-            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
             <artifactId>grpc-auth</artifactId>
-            <version>${grpc.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
@@ -99,22 +101,6 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-scr-plugin</artifactId>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>generate-scr-srcdescriptor</id>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>scr</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-                <configuration>
-                    <!-- avoid searching into wrong source path -->
-                    <scanClasses>true</scanClasses>
-                    <supportedProjectTypes>
-                        <supportedProjectType>bundle</supportedProjectType>
-                        <supportedProjectType>war</supportedProjectType>
-                    </supportedProjectTypes>
-                </configuration>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>