diff --git a/.project b/.project
index cdbcaba..f2663c5 100644
--- a/.project
+++ b/.project
@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <projectDescription>
-  <name>iot.kafka</name>
-  <comment>NO_M2ECLIPSE_SUPPORT: Project files created with the maven-eclipse-plugin are not supported in M2Eclipse.</comment>
-  <projects/>
-  <buildSpec>
-    <buildCommand>
-      <name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
-    </buildCommand>
-  </buildSpec>
-  <natures>
-    <nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
-  </natures>
-</projectDescription>
\ No newline at end of file
+	<name>iot.kafka</name>
+	<comment>NO_M2ECLIPSE_SUPPORT: Project files created with the maven-eclipse-plugin are not supported in M2Eclipse.</comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature</nature>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/.settings/.gitignore b/.settings/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9976760
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.settings/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
+/org.eclipse.m2e.core.prefs