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+<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>
+  <groupId>edu.reactivemessaging.akka</groupId>
+  <artifactId>reactiveMessagingWithAkkanScala</artifactId>
+  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  
+  <properties>
+    <scala.version>2.11.8</scala.version>
+    <scala.binary.version>2.11</scala.binary.version>
+    <akka.version>2.4.10</akka.version>
+    <akka.test.version>2.4.10</akka.test.version>
+    <akka.persistence.version>2.3.4</akka.persistence.version>
+    <scalatest.version>2.2.4</scalatest.version>
+  </properties>
+  
+  <dependencies>
+	    <dependency>
+	          <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
+	          <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
+	          <version>${scala.version}</version>
+	    </dependency>
+		<dependency>
+		    <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
+		    <artifactId>scala-reflect</artifactId>
+		    <version>${scala.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+	    <dependency>
+	       <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
+	       <artifactId>akka-actor_2.11</artifactId>
+	       <version>${akka.version}</version>
+	    </dependency>
+	    <dependency>
+	      <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
+	      <artifactId>akka-persistence-experimental_2.10</artifactId>
+	      <version>${akka.persistence.version}</version>
+	   </dependency>
+	   <dependency>
+	      <groupId>com.rabbitmq</groupId>
+	      <artifactId>amqp-client</artifactId>
+	      <version>3.5.6</version>
+	   </dependency>
+	   <dependency>
+	      <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
+	      <artifactId>akka-testkit_2.11</artifactId>
+	      <version>${akka.test.version}</version>
+	   </dependency>
+    </dependencies>  
+     
+    
+    <build>
+    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <source>1.8</source>
+          <target>1.8</target>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
+        <artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.1.6</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>compile</goal>
+              <goal>testCompile</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+        <configuration>
+          <args>
+            <arg>-nobootcp</arg>
+          </args>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+       </plugins>
+       </build>
+</project>