diff --git a/distro/INSTALL b/distro/INSTALL
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/distro/LICENSE b/distro/LICENSE
index cdb5851..2d9616a 100644
--- a/distro/LICENSE
+++ b/distro/LICENSE
@@ -1,7 +1 @@
-gCube System - License
-------------------------------------------------------------
-
-The gCube/gCore software is licensed as Free Open Source software conveying to the EUPL (http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/eupl).
-The software and documentation is provided by its authors/distributors "as is" and no expressed or 
-implied warranty is given for its use, quality or fitness for a particular case.
-
+${gcube.license}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/distro/MAINTAINERS b/distro/MAINTAINERS
deleted file mode 100644
index 084931e..0000000
--- a/distro/MAINTAINERS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Maintainers
----------------------------------------
-
-* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa,
-Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo". 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/distro/README b/distro/README
index 351154a..3678c90 100644
--- a/distro/README
+++ b/distro/README
@@ -1,40 +1,60 @@
-The gCube System - GisViewer 
-------------------------------------------------------------
-
-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.
-
-Authors
--------
-
-* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa@isti.cnr.it),  CNR Pisa, 
-Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo". 
-
-
+The gCube System - ${name}
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+${description}
+ 
+ 
+${gcube.description}
+ 
+${gcube.funding}
+ 
+ 
 Version
-------------------------
-
-v. 1.1.0
-
-Description
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+${version} (${buildDate})
+ 
+Please see the file named "changelog.xml" in this directory for the release notes.
+ 
+ 
+Authors
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa-AT-isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy). 
+ 
+Maintainers
 -----------
-A library with several utility classes to work with geo-spatial data: WmsUrlValidator, GeoGetStyles, etc.
-
+ 
+* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa-AT-isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy). 
+ 
 Download information
---------------------
-Source code is available from SVN:
-http://svn.d4science-ii.research-infrastructures.eu/gcube/trunk/spatial-data/geo-utility
-
-Binaries can be downloaded from:
-http://www.gcube-system.org/index.php
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Source code is available from SVN: 
+    ${scm.url}
+ 
+Binaries can be downloaded from the gCube website: 
+   ${gcube.website}
+ 
+ 
+Installation
+--------------------------------------------------
 
+ 
 Documentation 
--------------
-Documentation is available on-line from the Projects Documentation Wiki:
-
-https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/About_gCube
-
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Documentation is available on-line in the gCube Wiki:
+    ${gcube.wikiRoot}
+ 
+Support 
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Bugs and support requests can be reported in the gCube issue tracking tool:
+    ${gcube.issueTracking}
+ 
+ 
 Licensing
----------
-
-This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory. 
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/distro/svnpath.txt b/distro/svnpath.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index edacb04..0000000
--- a/distro/svnpath.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-${scm.url} 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d55da79..657e76c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
 	<artifactId>geo-utility</artifactId>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 	<version>1.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-	<name>A library with several utility classes to work with geo-spatial data: WmsUrlValidator, GeoGetStyles, etc..</name>
+	<name>geo-utility</name>
+	<description>A library with several utility classes to work with geo-spatial data: WmsUrlValidator, GeoGetStyles, etc..</description>
 
 	<properties>
 		<distroDirectory>distro</distroDirectory>
@@ -48,11 +49,11 @@
 			<version>1.2</version>
 		</dependency>
 
-<!-- 		<dependency> -->
-<!-- 			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId> -->
-<!-- 			<artifactId>commons-csv</artifactId> -->
-<!-- 			<version>1.2</version> -->
-<!-- 		</dependency> -->
+		<!-- <dependency> -->
+		<!-- <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId> -->
+		<!-- <artifactId>commons-csv</artifactId> -->
+		<!-- <version>1.2</version> -->
+		<!-- </dependency> -->
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.json</groupId>