diff --git a/jaxws-retail/pom.xml b/jaxws-retail/pom.xml
index 51d4ac9b90..bdec01a9a4 100644
--- a/jaxws-retail/pom.xml
+++ b/jaxws-retail/pom.xml
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
         <relativePath/>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>jaxws-retail</artifactId>
+    <version>36.0.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT</version>    
     <packaging>war</packaging>
     <name>Quickstart: jaxws-retail</name>
     <description>This project is a working example of a JAX-WS web service retail endpoint</description>