diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4e801a7..47b04f9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 /bin/
 .classpath
-.project
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+.project
+/target/
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e50b5b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<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>hanabi-networking</groupId>
+  <artifactId>hanabi-networking</artifactId>
+  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <name>hanabi-nw</name>
+  <build>
+    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.3</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <source>1.8</source>
+          <target>1.8</target>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+  <dependencies>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>org.json</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>json</artifactId>
+  		<version>20141113</version>
+  	</dependency>
+  	<dependency>
+		<groupId>gnu.getopt</groupId>
+		<artifactId>java-getopt</artifactId>
+		<version>1.0.13</version>
+	</dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
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