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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         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>groupId</groupId>
+    <artifactId>KorAP-Tokenizer</artifactId>
+    <version>1.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <jackson.version>[2.10.3,)</jackson.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <build>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <excludes>
+                    <!--<exclude>**/*.properties</exclude>-->
+                    <exclude>**/*.sh</exclude>
+                    <exclude>**/*.cfg</exclude>
+                </excludes>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+        <testResources>
+            <testResource>
+                <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
+            </testResource>
+        </testResources>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.22.2</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <threadCount>15</threadCount>
+                    <reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
+                    <parallel>classes</parallel>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.8.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <!-- or whatever version you use -->
+                    <release>${maven.compiler.release}</release>
+                    <source>${maven.compiler.release}</source>
+                    <target>${maven.compiler.release}</target>
+                    <showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation>
+                    <annotationProcessorPaths>
+                        <path>
+                            <groupId>info.picocli</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>picocli-codegen</artifactId>
+                            <version>4.2.0</version>
+                        </path>
+                    </annotationProcessorPaths>
+                    <compilerArgs>
+                        <arg>-Aproject=${project.groupId}/${project.artifactId}
+                        </arg>
+                    </compilerArgs>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <!-- Replacing default-compile as it is treated specially by maven -->
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>default-compile</id>
+                        <phase>none</phase>
+                    </execution>
+                    <!-- Replacing default-testCompile as it is treated specially by
+                      maven -->
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>default-testCompile</id>
+                        <phase>none</phase>
+                    </execution>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>java-compile</id>
+                        <phase>compile</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>compile</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>java-test-compile</id>
+                        <phase>test-compile</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>testCompile</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.0.0</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <excludeDefaultDirectories>true</excludeDefaultDirectories>
+                    <filesets>
+                        <fileset>
+                            <directory>target</directory>
+                            <includes>
+                                <include>**</include>
+                            </includes>
+                            <excludes>
+                                <exclude>generated-sources/jflex/**</exclude>
+                            </excludes>
+                        </fileset>
+                    </filesets>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <!-- Build an executable JAR -->
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.1.0</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <archive>
+                        <manifest>
+                            <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
+                            <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
+                            <mainClass>de.ids_mannheim.korap.tokenizer.KorAPTokenizerImpl</mainClass>
+                        </manifest>
+                    </archive>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>de.jflex</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jflex-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.8.2</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>generate</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>2.22.2</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.11</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+</project>