diff --git a/distro/LICENSE b/distro/LICENSE
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-${gcube.license}
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diff --git a/distro/README b/distro/README
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-The gCube System - ${name}
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-${description}
- 
-
-${gcube.description}
- 
-${gcube.funding}
- 
- 
-Version
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-${version} (${buildDate})
- 
-Please see the file named "changelog.xml" in this directory for the release notes.
- 
- 
-Authors
---------------------------------------------------
-
-* Giancarlo Panichi (giancarlo.panichi-AT-isti.cnr.it), 
-		Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" CNR, Pisa IT
-
- 
-Maintainers
------------
- 
-* Giancarlo Panichi (giancarlo.panichi-AT-isti.cnr.it), 
-		Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" CNR, Pisa IT
-
- 
-Download information
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-Source code is available from SVN: 
-	${scm.url}
- 
-Binaries can be downloaded from the gCube website: 
-	${gcube.website}
- 
- 
-Installation
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-Installation documentation is available on-line in the gCube Wiki:
-	https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/Accounting_Manager
-  
- 
-Documentation 
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-Documentation is available on-line in the gCube Wiki:
-	https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/Accounting_Manager
-   
- 
-Support 
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-Bugs and support requests can be reported in the gCube issue tracking tool:
-	${gcube.issueTracking}
- 
- 
-Licensing
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
diff --git a/distro/changelog.xml b/distro/changelog.xml
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-<ReleaseNotes>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-12-0"
-		date="2019-05-02">
-		<Change>Added autocomplete combo scope and fixed scope list view width</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-11-0"
-		date="2018-12-28">
-		<Change>Added scope selection [Ticket #10188]</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-10-0"
-		date="2018-10-01">
-		<Change>Updated to StorageHub [Ticket #12474]</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-9-1"
-		date="2018-04-11">
-		<Change>Updated log level to debug [Ticket #11259]</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-9-0"
-		date="2017-11-20">
-		<Change>Updated to support Operation Count as default in all charts
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-8-0"
-		date="2017-10-01">
-		<Change>Updated to new version of accounting client library</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-7-0"
-		date="2017-06-12">
-		<Change>Added Spaces chart [Ticket #8397]</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-6-0"
-		date="2017-02-28">
-		<Change>Fixed download in case of multitab on different scopes
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-5-0"
-		date="2016-12-01">
-		<Change>Added Context Chart</Change>
-		<Change>Added Cache</Change>
-		<Change>Updated to PortalContext</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-4-0"
-		date="2016-10-01">
-		<Change>Updated to AUTH2.0</Change>
-		<Change>Added Job</Change>
-		<Change>Added configuration by generic resource</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-3-0"
-		date="2016-07-15">
-		<Change>Added CSV download [Ticket #4041]</Change>
-		<Change>Added Show Others option</Change>
-		<Change>Updated to Liferay 6.2</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-2-0"
-		date="2016-05-01">
-		<Change>Added Top N Chart[Ticket #2251]</Change>
-		<Change>Fixed back button behavior[Ticket #3251]</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-1-0"
-		date="2016-01-31">
-		<Change>Added to Storage Accounting more formats for DataVolume axis
-			[Ticket #1831]
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Fixed on Storage Accounting the popup validation on filters
-			[Ticket #1832]
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Fixed library dependencies</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets.admin.accounting-manager.1-0-0"
-		date="2015-10-15">
-		<Change>First Release</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-</ReleaseNotes>
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diff --git a/distro/descriptor.xml b/distro/descriptor.xml
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-<assembly
-	xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">
-	<id>servicearchive</id>
-	<formats>
-		<format>tar.gz</format>
-	</formats>
-	<baseDirectory>/</baseDirectory>
-	<fileSets>
-		<fileSet>
-			<directory>${distroDirectory}</directory>
-			<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
-			<useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
-			<includes>
-				<include>README</include>
-				<include>LICENSE</include>
-				<include>changelog.xml</include>
-				<include>profile.xml</include>
-			</includes>
-			<fileMode>755</fileMode>
-			<filtered>true</filtered>
-		</fileSet>
-	</fileSets>
-	<files>
-		<file>
-			<source>target/${build.finalName}.${project.packaging}</source>
-			<outputDirectory>/${artifactId}</outputDirectory>
-		</file>
-
-	</files>
-</assembly>
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diff --git a/distro/profile.xml b/distro/profile.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Resource>
-	<ID></ID>
-	<Type>Service</Type>
-	<Profile>
-		<Description>${project.description}</Description>
-		<Class>PortletsAdmin</Class>
-		<Name>${project.name}</Name>
-		<Version>1.0.0</Version>
-		<Packages>
-			<Software>
-				<Description>${project.description}</Description>
-				<Name>${project.name}</Name>
-				<Version>${version}</Version>
-				<MavenCoordinates>
-					<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-					<artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
-					<version>${project.version}</version>
-				</MavenCoordinates>
-				<Type>webapplication</Type>
-				<Files>
-					<File>${project.build.finalName}.${project.packaging}</File>	
-				</Files>
-			</Software>
-		</Packages>
-	</Profile>
-</Resource>
-
-