diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+*.sw?
+project/*
+target/*
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
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+resolvers in ThisBuild ++= Seq("Apache Development Snapshot Repository" at "https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/",
+  "velvia maven" at "http://dl.bintray.com/velvia/maven",
+  Resolver.mavenLocal)
+
+// settings definitions
+val flinkVersion = settingKey[String]("Flink version")
+val flinkDependencies = settingKey[Seq[String]]("Direct flink dependencies")
+
+// The "main" project
+lazy val root = (project in file("."))
+  .settings(
+	name := "SocketFlink",
+	version := "1.99.8",
+	organization := "net.juliobiason",
+	flinkVersion := "1.4.0",
+	scalaVersion := "2.11.8",
+	mainClass := Some("net.juliobiason.flink.SocketWindowWordCount"),
+
+	// dependencies
+	libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
+	  "commons-codec" % "commons-codec" % "1.11",
+	  "mysql" % "mysql-connector-java" % "5.1.24",
+	  "org.apache.flink" % "flink-core" % flinkVersion.value,
+	  "org.apache.flink" % "flink-java" % flinkVersion.value,
+	  "org.apache.flink" %% "flink-streaming-java" % flinkVersion.value % "provided",
+	  "org.slf4j" % "slf4j-log4j12" % "1.7.25"
+	),
+
+	// as silly as it looks, this is what we need to do to run our 
+	// pipeline as a standalone project (using Flink libraries, but
+	// not Flink itself).
+	run := Defaults.runTask(fullClasspath in Compile,
+		mainClass in (Compile, run),
+		runner in (Compile, run)).evaluated,
+
+	javacOptions += "-Xlint:deprecation",
+	javacOptions += "-Xlint:unchecked"
+  )