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+<!--
+IMPORTANT: This POM is NOT used for release builds.  Ant is used for that (see build.xml).  Rather, it's provided for
+driver developers who would rather use Maven than Ant as their build tool.
+-->
+<project>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
+    <artifactId>mongo-java-driver</artifactId>
+    <packaging>bundle</packaging>
+    <name>MongoDB Java Driver</name>
+    <version>2.8.0</version>
+    <description>The MongoDB Java driver</description>
+    <url>http://www.mongodb.org</url>
+
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+            <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+            <distribution>repo</distribution>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+
+    <scm>
+        <url>https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-java-driver</url>
+    </scm>
+
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
+
+    <build>
+        <sourceDirectory>src/main</sourceDirectory>
+        <testSourceDirectory>src/test</testSourceDirectory>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.3.7</version>
+                <extensions>true</extensions>
+                <configuration>
+                    <instructions>
+                        <Export-Package>com.mongodb.*</Export-Package>
+                        <Export-Package>org.bson.*</Export-Package>
+                    </instructions>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
+            <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
+            <version>6.3.1</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <developers>
+        <developer>
+            <name>Various</name>
+            <organization>10gen</organization>
+        </developer>
+    </developers>
+
+</project>