diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b34e8a6..7cc57ef 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ doc/
 release/
 .settings
 .classpath
-.project
\ No newline at end of file
+.project
+target/
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1057f2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<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>
+  <groupId>txtmark</groupId>
+  <artifactId>txtmark</artifactId>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <version>0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <name>txtmark</name>
+  <url>https://github.com/rjeschke/txtmark</url>
+  <build>
+    <sourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/java</sourceDirectory>
+  </build>
+  <dependencies>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>