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+<?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>com.google.cloud</groupId>
+  <artifactId>datacatalog-snippets</artifactId>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <name>Google Data Catalog Snippets</name>
+  <url>https://github.com/googleapis/java-datacatalog</url>
+
+  <!--
+    The parent pom defines common style checks and testing strategies for our samples.
+    Removing or replacing it should not affect the execution of the samples in anyway.
+  -->
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>com.google.cloud.samples</groupId>
+    <artifactId>shared-configuration</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0.12</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <properties>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+  </properties>
+
+
+  <!-- [START datacatalog_install_with_bom] -->
+  <dependencyManagement>
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
+        <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
+        <version>4.2.0</version>
+        <type>pom</type>
+        <scope>import</scope>
+      </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+  </dependencyManagement>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
+      <artifactId>google-cloud-datacatalog</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- [END datacatalog_install_with_bom] -->
+
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <version>4.13</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.truth</groupId>
+      <artifactId>truth</artifactId>
+      <version>1.0.1</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>