diff --git a/paper-api/pom.xml b/paper-api/pom.xml
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index 0000000000..4d5a7cfb5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-api/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+
+<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>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
+        <artifactId>oss-parent</artifactId>
+        <version>9</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <groupId>org.bukkit</groupId>
+    <artifactId>bukkit</artifactId>
+    <version>1.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+    <name>Bukkit</name>
+    <url>http://www.bukkit.org/</url>
+    <description>A plugin API for Minecraft servers.</description>
+
+    <properties>
+        <maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
+
+    <!-- just until we get deployment to central approved -->
+    <distributionManagement>
+        <repository>
+            <id>spigotmc-releases</id>
+            <url>https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/</url>
+        </repository>
+        <snapshotRepository>
+            <id>spigotmc-releases</id>
+            <url>https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
+        </snapshotRepository>
+    </distributionManagement>
+
+    <!-- required until fixed plexus-compiler-eclipse is deployed -->
+    <pluginRepositories>
+        <pluginRepository>
+            <id>spigotmc-public</id>
+            <url>https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
+        </pluginRepository>
+    </pluginRepositories>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
+            <version>2.6</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
+            <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
+            <version>1.1.1</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <!-- bundled with Minecraft, should be kept in sync -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+            <version>17.0</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.avaje</groupId>
+            <artifactId>ebean</artifactId>
+            <version>2.8.1</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
+            <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
+            <version>1.14</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <!-- testing -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.12</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hamcrest-library</artifactId>
+            <version>1.3</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <!-- versions after this appear to be broken -->
+                <version>3.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <!-- we use the Eclipse compiler as it doesn't need a JDK -->
+                    <compilerId>eclipse</compilerId>
+                    <!-- source and target are ignored if this isn't true -->
+                    <optimize>true</optimize>
+                </configuration>
+                <dependencies>
+                    <!-- we need our custom version as it fixes some bugs on case sensitive file systems -->
+                    <dependency>
+                        <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>plexus-compiler-eclipse</artifactId>
+                        <version>2.5.0-spigotmc</version>
+                    </dependency>
+                </dependencies>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.3</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>shade</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+                <configuration>
+                    <!-- utterly useless artifact from shade 2.x -->
+                    <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
+                    <!-- when downloading via Maven we can pull depends individually -->
+                    <shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/paper-api/src/site/apt/index.apt b/paper-api/src/site/apt/index.apt
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index 0a7880a6ff..0000000000
--- a/paper-api/src/site/apt/index.apt
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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-Welcome to the Bukkit Maven mini-site!
-
-    This website is automatically generated by Maven 3.
-    As such, it is updated when the main build system (http://ci.bukkit.org) executes the site lifecycle on the Maven job.
-    For more information about Bukkit, please see the links above.
-
-Javadocs
-
-    For Javadocs, please select the "Project Reports" then "JavaDocs" option on the left-hand menu.
diff --git a/paper-api/src/site/site.xml b/paper-api/src/site/site.xml
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index ff24fab700..0000000000
--- a/paper-api/src/site/site.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project name="Bukkit">
-  <bannerLeft>
-    <name>Bukkit</name>
-    <src>http://bukkit.org/logo.png</src>
-    <href>http://bukkit.org/</href>
-  </bannerLeft>
-  <body>
-    <links>
-      <item name="Homepage" href="http://bukkit.org/" />
-      <item name="Forums" href="http://forums.bukkit.org/" />
-      <item name="Source/Github" href="https://github.com/Bukkit/" />
-      <item name="Continuous Integration/Jenkins" href="http://ci.bukkit.org/" />
-      <item name="Maven Repo" href="http://repo.bukkit.org/" />
-    </links>
-    <menu name="Bukkit Project">
-      <item name="Homepage" href="http://bukkit.org/" />
-      <item name="Forums" href="http://forums.bukkit.org/" />
-      <item name="Source/Github" href="https://github.com/Bukkit/" />
-      <item name="Continuous Integration/Jenkins" href="http://ci.bukkit.org/" />
-      <item name="Maven Repo" href="http://repo.bukkit.org/" />
-    </menu>
-    <menu name="API Documentation">
-      <item name="JavaDocs" href="apidocs/" />
-      <item name="Doxygen" href="doxygen/" />
-    </menu>
-    <menu ref="reports" />
-  </body>
-</project>