diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+*.class
+
+# Mobile Tools for Java (J2ME)
+.mtj.tmp/
+
+# Package Files #
+*.war
+*.ear
+
+# virtual machine crash logs, see http://www.java.com/en/download/help/error_hotspot.xml
+hs_err_pid*
+
+# Build
+target/
+build/
+
+# User-specific stuff:
+.idea/workspace.xml
+.idea/tasks.xml
+.idea/dictionaries
+
+# Sensitive or high-churn files:
+.idea/dataSources.ids
+.idea/dataSources.xml
+.idea/sqlDataSources.xml
+.idea/dynamic.xml
+.idea/uiDesigner.xml
+
+# Gradle:
+.idea/gradle.xml
+.idea/libraries
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# sequencefile-examples
+
+A collection of examples of working with sequence files
+
+Setup:
+------
+
+* Clone the project
+```
+cd /tmp && git clone https://github.com/sakserv/sequencefile-examples.git
+```
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
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+<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.github.sakserv</groupId>
+    <artifactId>sequencefile-examples</artifactId>
+    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <hadoop-mini-clusters.version>0.0.12</hadoop-mini-clusters.version>
+        <hadoop.version>2.6.0.2.2.0.0-2041</hadoop.version>
+        <jetty.version>6.1.26</jetty.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <releases>
+                <enabled>true</enabled>
+            </releases>
+            <snapshots>
+                <enabled>false</enabled>
+            </snapshots>
+            <id>clojars.org</id>
+            <url>http://clojars.org/repo</url>
+        </repository>
+        <repository>
+            <releases>
+                <enabled>true</enabled>
+            </releases>
+            <snapshots>
+                <enabled>false</enabled>
+            </snapshots>
+            <id>central</id>
+            <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/</url>
+        </repository>
+        <repository>
+            <id>hortonworks</id>
+            <url>http://repo.hortonworks.com/content/repositories/releases/</url>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.github.sakserv</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-mini-clusters</artifactId>
+            <version>${hadoop-mini-clusters.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
+            <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
+            <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-minicluster</artifactId>
+            <version>${hadoop.version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
+            <version>${jetty.version}</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jetty-util</artifactId>
+            <version>${jetty.version}</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <sourceDirectory>src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
+        <testSourceDirectory>test/main/java</testSourceDirectory>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+
+        <plugins>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.4</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <createDependencyReducedPom>true</createDependencyReducedPom>
+                    <filters>
+                        <filter>
+                            <artifact>*:*</artifact>
+                            <excludes>
+                                <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
+                                <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
+                                <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
+                            </excludes>
+                        </filter>
+                    </filters>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>shade</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+
+                            <transformers>
+                                <transformer
+                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
+                                <transformer
+                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
+                                </transformer>
+                            </transformers>
+
+
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.18</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <forkMode>pertest</forkMode>
+                    <argLine>-Xms4g -Xmx4g -XX:MaxPermSize=1024M</argLine>
+                    <testFailureIgnore>false</testFailureIgnore>
+                    <skip>false</skip>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.2</version>
+            <configuration>
+                <source>1.7</source>
+                <target>1.7</target>
+            </configuration>
+        </plugin>
+
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>