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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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <groupId>eva2</groupId>
-  <artifactId>EvA2</artifactId>
-  <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>2.2.0</version>
-  <name>EvA2</name>
-  <url>http://www.ra.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/software/EvA2/</url>
-  <description>EvA2 (an Evolutionary Algorithms framework, revised version 2) is a comprehensive heuristic optimization framework with emphasis on Evolutionary Algorithms implemented in Java. It is a revised version of the JavaEvA optimization toolbox, which has been developed as a resumption of the former EvA software package.</description>
-
-  <scm>
-    <connection>scm:git:https://gitlab.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/eva2/eva2.git</connection>
-    <developerConnection>scm:git:https://gitlab.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/eva2/eva2.git</developerConnection>
-    <url>https://gitlab.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/eva2/eva2</url>
-  </scm>  
-  
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>junit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>4.11</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>javax.help</groupId>
-      <artifactId>javahelp</artifactId>
-      <version>2.0.05</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
-      <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
-      <version>1.14</version>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
-  
-  
-  <build>
-    <directory>${project.basedir}/build</directory>
-    <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes</outputDirectory>
-    <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</finalName>    
-    <sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src</sourceDirectory>
-    <testSourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/test</testSourceDirectory>
-    <resources>
-      <resource>
-        <directory>${project.basedir}/resources</directory>
-      </resource>
-    </resources>
-    <plugins>
-      <!-- Adds archive plugin to set archiving settings including main class -->
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.4</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <archive>
-            <index>true</index>
-            <addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
-            <manifest>
-              <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
-              <mainClass>eva2.gui.Main</mainClass>
-            </manifest>
-          </archive>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.3.2</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <source>1.8</source>
-          <target>1.8</target>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>      
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.2.1</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <descriptorRefs>
-            <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
-          </descriptorRefs>
-          <archive>
-            <manifest>
-              <mainClass>eva2.gui.Main</mainClass>
-            </manifest>
-          </archive>
-        </configuration>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <phase>package</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>single</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>  
-  
-  
-  <properties>
-    <!-- Default file encoding is UTF-8 -->
-    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-  </properties>
-  
-  <licenses>
-    <license>
-      <name>GNU LGPL v2.1</name>
-      <url>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt</url>
-      <distribution>repo</distribution>
-      <comments>GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1</comments>
-    </license>
-  </licenses>
-  
-  <organization>
-    <name>Department for Cognitive Systems, University of Tuebingen, Germany</name>
-    <url>http://www.cogsys.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/</url>
-  </organization>
-</project>