diff --git a/java/pom.xml b/java/pom.xml
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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>ca.uwaterloo.cs489</groupId>
+  <artifactId>exercise2</artifactId>
+  <version>2023</version>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+      <version>2.19.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <properties>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+    <exec.mainClass>ca.uwaterloo.cs489.exercise2.MainApp</exec.mainClass>
+  </properties>  
+  
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.1.0</version>
+	<executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>java</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+	<configuration>
+	  <mainClass>ca.uwaterloo.cs489.exercise2.MainApp</mainClass>
+	</configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+
+</project>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="INFO">
+  <Appenders>
+    <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+      <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
+    </Console>
+  </Appenders>
+  <Loggers>
+    <Root level="info">
+      <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
+    </Root>
+  </Loggers>
+</Configuration>
diff --git a/java/target/maven-status/maven-compiler-plugin/compile/default-compile/createdFiles.lst b/java/target/maven-status/maven-compiler-plugin/compile/default-compile/createdFiles.lst
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+ca/uwaterloo/cs489/exercise2/Job.class
+ca/uwaterloo/cs489/exercise2/MainApp.class
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+/home/hadilo/CS489-build-exercise/java/src/main/java/ca/uwaterloo/cs489/exercise2/MainApp.java
+/home/hadilo/CS489-build-exercise/java/src/main/java/ca/uwaterloo/cs489/exercise2/Job.java