diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 931a81f..6203273 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ target
 out
 .idea/workspace.xml
 s101plugin.state
+*.iml
diff --git a/jcoffeescript.iml b/jcoffeescript.iml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2255cc4..0000000
--- a/jcoffeescript.iml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<module type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">
-  <component name="NewModuleRootManager" inherit-compiler-output="true">
-    <exclude-output />
-    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
-      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/java" isTestSource="false" />
-      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/resources" isTestSource="false" />
-      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/unit-tests/java" isTestSource="true" />
-      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target" />
-    </content>
-    <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
-    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
-    <orderEntry type="module-library">
-      <library>
-        <CLASSES>
-          <root url="jar://$MODULE_DIR$/lib/hamcrest-all-1.3RC0.jar!/" />
-        </CLASSES>
-        <JAVADOC />
-        <SOURCES />
-      </library>
-    </orderEntry>
-    <orderEntry type="module-library">
-      <library>
-        <CLASSES>
-          <root url="jar://$MODULE_DIR$/lib/jruby-complete-1.4.0.jar!/" />
-        </CLASSES>
-        <JAVADOC />
-        <SOURCES />
-      </library>
-    </orderEntry>
-    <orderEntry type="library" name="Rhino" level="project" />
-    <orderEntry type="module-library">
-      <library>
-        <CLASSES>
-          <root url="jar://$MODULE_DIR$/lib/junit-dep-4.8.2.jar!/" />
-        </CLASSES>
-        <JAVADOC />
-        <SOURCES />
-      </library>
-    </orderEntry>
-  </component>
-</module>
-
diff --git a/lib/.gitignore b/lib/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5847437
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+*.jar
+*.tar
+*.tgz
+*.gz
+*.zip
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..01a7ce9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+<?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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <groupId>org.jcoffeescript</groupId>
+    <artifactId>jcoffeescript</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jruby/jruby-complete -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.jruby</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jruby-complete</artifactId>
+            <version>9.1.12.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>rhino</groupId>
+            <artifactId>js</artifactId>
+            <version>1.7R2</version>
+            <!-- not sure exactly if the scope is right -->
+            <!-- <type>jar</type> -->
+            <!-- <scope>compile</scope> -->
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.5.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>1.8</source>
+                    <target>1.8</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+
+    </build>
+
+</project>
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