diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7e61987851439
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>com.twitter</groupId>
+  <artifactId>kafka_2.9.2</artifactId>
+  <version>0.7.0</version>
+  <name>cascalog</name>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
+      <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
+      <version>3.3.4</version>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
+          <groupId>jline</groupId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+          <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.github.sgroschupf</groupId>
+      <artifactId>zkclient</artifactId>
+      <version>0.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/project/build.properties b/project/build.properties
index 36df23333e264..d94d5bd8de136 100644
--- a/project/build.properties
+++ b/project/build.properties
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 # The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 # (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 # the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-# 
+#
 #    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-# 
+#
 # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 project.name=Kafka
 sbt.version=0.7.5
 project.version=0.7.0
-build.scala.versions=2.8.0
+build.scala.versions=2.9.2
 contrib.root.dir=contrib
 lib.dir=lib
-target.dir=target/scala_2.8.0
+target.dir=target/scala_2.9.2
 dist.dir=dist