diff --git a/distro/INSTALL b/distro/INSTALL
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bcbb15..0000000
--- a/distro/INSTALL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Used as a library in the gCube Framework
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/distro/MAINTAINERS b/distro/MAINTAINERS
deleted file mode 100644
index 17d3dd2..0000000
--- a/distro/MAINTAINERS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Rena Tsantouli (e.tsantoylh@di.uoa.gr),  
-  National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department Informatics.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/distro/README b/distro/README
index c5b3433..35c99c0 100644
--- a/distro/README
+++ b/distro/README
@@ -1,50 +1,67 @@
-The gCube System - Process Optimisation - Planner Service
-------------------------------------------------------------
-
-This work is partially funded by the European Commission in the
-context of the D4Science project (www.d4science.eu), under the 1st call of FP7 IST priority.
-
-
+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
--------
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+* Massimiliano Assante (massimiliano.assante-AT-isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy).
 
-* Valia Tsagkalidou (v.tsagkalidou@di.uoa.gr),
-  National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department Informatics.
-  
-* Rena Tsantouli (e.tsantoylh@di.uoa.gr),
-  National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department Informatics.
-  
-* Massimiliano Assante  
-  Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), CNR , Italy
-  
-Version and Release Date
-------------------------
-
-v. 3.0.0, 17/05/2010
-
-
-Description
+ 
+ 
+Maintainers
 -----------
-Provides functionality that helps presentation layer to use gCube services  
-
-
+ 
+* Massimiliano Assante (massimiliano.assante-AT-isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy).
+ 
+ 
 Download information
---------------------
-Source code is available from SVN:
-https://svn.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/gcube/trunk/application-support-layer/applicationSupportLayerVREManagement/
-
-Binaries can be downloaded from:
-http://software.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/
-
-
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+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:
+    ${gcube.wikiRoot}/
+ 
+ 
 Documentation 
--------------
-Documentation is available on-line from the Projects Documentation Wiki:
-
-https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/ASL
-
-
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Documentation is available on-line in the gCube Wiki:
+    ${gcube.wikiRoot}/
+    ${gcube.wikiRoot}/
+ 
+Support 
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Bugs and support requests can be reported in the gCube issue tracking tool:
+    ${gcube.issueTracking}
+ 
+ 
 Licensing
----------
-
-This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.  
\ No newline at end of file
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
diff --git a/distro/svnpath.txt b/distro/svnpath.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index edacb04..0000000
--- a/distro/svnpath.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-${scm.url} 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 00cc6ca..a35e420 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 	</scm>
 	<properties>
 		<distroDirectory>distro</distroDirectory>
-		<maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
-		<maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
+		<maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
+		<maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
 
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.liferay.portal</groupId>
 			<artifactId>portal-service</artifactId>
-			<version>6.0.6</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>log4j</groupId>