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+# ============LICENSE_START==========================================
+# ONAP : APPC
+# ===================================================================
+# Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+# ===================================================================
+#
+# Unless otherwise specified, all software contained herein is licensed
+# under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the License);
+# you may not use this software except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# ECOMP is a trademark and service mark of AT&T Intellectual Property.
+# ============LICENSE_END============================================
+# Target dirs in all projects
+**/target/*
+**/target-ide/*
+
+# Added for Intellij IDEA IDE
+**/.idea/*
+*.iml
+**/*.iml
+/.idea/
+
+# Used to not upload Blackduck Scans
+**/appc_bdio.jsonld
+**/blackDuckHubProjectName.txt
+**/blackDuckHubProjectVersionName.txt
+
+# Generated models and features
+**/bin/*
+
+# Checkstyle files
+**/.checkstyle
+
+
+# MANIFEST.MF is updated on every clean install
+**/src/main/resources/META-INF/
+
+# Karaf Assembly
+#/appc-adapters/appc-*-adapter/appc-*-adapter-installer/src/assembly/*
+
+# Used to not upload any maven dependency graph outputs
+**/deptree.text
+
+.project
+
+*.prefs
+.classpath
+**/.classpath
+/target/
+logs/
+debug-logs/
+**/.settings/*
+**/*.iml
+/.idea/
+/bin/