diff --git a/jOOQ-examples/pom.xml b/jOOQ-examples/pom.xml
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@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<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>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.jooq</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jooq-parent</artifactId>
+        <version>3.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <groupId>org.jooq</groupId>
+    <artifactId>jooq-examples</artifactId>
+    <version>3.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+    <name>jOOQ Examples</name>
+
+    <description>
+        jOOQ effectively combines complex SQL, typesafety, source code generation, active records,
+        stored procedures, advanced data types, and Java in a fluent, intuitive DSL.
+    </description>
+
+    <url>http://www.jooq.org</url>
+
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>Apache License, Version 2.0</name>
+            <url>http://www.jooq.org/inc/LICENSE.txt</url>
+            <distribution>repo</distribution>
+        </license>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+    </licenses>
+
+    <scm>
+        <developerConnection>https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ.git</developerConnection>
+        <url>https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ.git</url>
+        <connection>git://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ.git</connection>
+    </scm>
+
+    <issueManagement>
+        <system>GitHub</system>
+        <url>http://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/issues</url>
+    </issueManagement>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.5</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <modules>
+        <module>jOOQ-kotlin-example</module>
+        <module>jOOQ-spring-example</module>
+        <module>jOOQ-spring-guice-example</module>
+        <module>jOOQ-jpa-example-entities</module>
+        <module>jOOQ-jpa-example</module>
+    </modules>
+</project>
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