diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 90edc16a1..02337e538 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ local.properties
 .loadpath
 .recommenders
 *.iml
-
-.classpath
-.project
-
 **/.flattened-pom.xml
 **/nb-configuration.xml
 **.iml
diff --git a/.project b/.project
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f05e87f64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+  <name>dataformat-parent</name>
+  <buildSpec>
+  </buildSpec>
+  <natures>
+  </natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/dataformat-aasx/.classpath b/dataformat-aasx/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41deb1700
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataformat-aasx/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java" output="target/test-classes" including="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/resources" output="target/test-classes" excluding="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java" including="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="/dataformat-xml"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="/dataformat-core"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="/model"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-databind/2.15.2/jackson-databind-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-annotations/2.15.2/jackson-annotations-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-core/2.15.2/jackson-core-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/io/github/classgraph/classgraph/4.8.162/classgraph-4.8.162.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/guava/32.1.3-jre/guava-32.1.3-jre.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/failureaccess/1.0.1/failureaccess-1.0.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/failureaccess/1.0.1/failureaccess-1.0.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/listenablefuture/9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava/listenablefuture-9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/3.0.2/jsr305-3.0.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/3.0.2/jsr305-3.0.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/checkerframework/checker-qual/3.37.0/checker-qual-3.37.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.21.1/error_prone_annotations-2.21.1.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/j2objc/j2objc-annotations/2.8/j2objc-annotations-2.8.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.13.0/commons-lang3-3.13.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/2.0.9/slf4j-api-2.0.9.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/jackson-dataformat-xml/2.15.2/jackson-dataformat-xml-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/codehaus/woodstox/stax2-api/4.2.1/stax2-api-4.2.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/codehaus/woodstox/stax2-api/4.2.1/stax2-api-4.2.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/woodstox/woodstox-core/6.5.1/woodstox-core-6.5.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/woodstox/woodstox-core/6.5.1/woodstox-core-6.5.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/poi/poi-ooxml/5.2.4/poi-ooxml-5.2.4.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/poi/poi/5.2.4/poi-5.2.4.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.16.0/commons-codec-1.16.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/commons/commons-collections4/4.4/commons-collections4-4.4.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/apache/commons/commons-collections4/4.4/commons-collections4-4.4-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/commons/commons-math3/3.6.1/commons-math3-3.6.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/apache/commons/commons-math3/3.6.1/commons-math3-3.6.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-io/commons-io/2.14.0/commons-io-2.14.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/zaxxer/SparseBitSet/1.3/SparseBitSet-1.3.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-api/2.20.0/log4j-api-2.20.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/poi/poi-ooxml-lite/5.2.4/poi-ooxml-lite-5.2.4.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/xmlbeans/xmlbeans/5.1.1/xmlbeans-5.1.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/apache/xmlbeans/xmlbeans/5.1.1/xmlbeans-5.1.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.24.0/commons-compress-1.24.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/github/virtuald/curvesapi/1.08/curvesapi-1.08.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/4.13.2/junit-4.13.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/junit/junit/4.13.2/junit-4.13.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/2.2/hamcrest-core-2.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/2.2/hamcrest-core-2.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest/2.2/hamcrest-2.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest/2.2/hamcrest-2.2-sources.jar"/>
+</classpath>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dataformat-aasx/.gitignore b/dataformat-aasx/.gitignore
index 520731e01..621ed5023 100644
--- a/dataformat-aasx/.gitignore
+++ b/dataformat-aasx/.gitignore
@@ -23,9 +23,4 @@ local.properties
 .settings/
 .loadpath
 .recommenders
-
-.classpath
-.project
-
 testJsonSerialization.json
-
diff --git a/dataformat-aasx/.project b/dataformat-aasx/.project
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..35d9c1130
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataformat-aasx/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+  <name>dataformat-aasx</name>
+  <comment>Eclipse AAS Model for Java (AAS4J) implements the specification of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) such as metamodels, submodels, serialization and deserialization modules, and validators based on the AAS specifications.. NO_M2ECLIPSE_SUPPORT: Project files created with the maven-eclipse-plugin are not supported in M2Eclipse.</comment>
+  <projects>
+    <project>dataformat-xml</project>
+    <project>dataformat-core</project>
+    <project>model</project>
+  </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
diff --git a/dataformat-aasx/pom.xml b/dataformat-aasx/pom.xml
index c42a42903..494ec4f7d 100644
--- a/dataformat-aasx/pom.xml
+++ b/dataformat-aasx/pom.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
         <groupId>org.eclipse.digitaltwin.aas4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>dataformat-parent</artifactId>
         <version>${revision}</version>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>dataformat-aasx</artifactId>
     <name>Asset Administration Shell AASX-Serializer</name>
diff --git a/dataformat-core/.classpath b/dataformat-core/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b9db1933b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataformat-core/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java" output="target/test-classes" including="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java" including="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="/model"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-databind/2.15.2/jackson-databind-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-annotations/2.15.2/jackson-annotations-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-core/2.15.2/jackson-core-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/io/github/classgraph/classgraph/4.8.162/classgraph-4.8.162.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/guava/32.1.3-jre/guava-32.1.3-jre.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/failureaccess/1.0.1/failureaccess-1.0.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/failureaccess/1.0.1/failureaccess-1.0.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/listenablefuture/9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava/listenablefuture-9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/3.0.2/jsr305-3.0.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/3.0.2/jsr305-3.0.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/checkerframework/checker-qual/3.37.0/checker-qual-3.37.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.21.1/error_prone_annotations-2.21.1.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/j2objc/j2objc-annotations/2.8/j2objc-annotations-2.8.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.13.0/commons-lang3-3.13.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/mockito/mockito-core/5.6.0/mockito-core-5.6.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/net/bytebuddy/byte-buddy/1.14.8/byte-buddy-1.14.8.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/net/bytebuddy/byte-buddy-agent/1.14.8/byte-buddy-agent-1.14.8.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/objenesis/objenesis/3.3/objenesis-3.3.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/objenesis/objenesis/3.3/objenesis-3.3-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/pl/pragmatists/JUnitParams/1.1.1/JUnitParams-1.1.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/pl/pragmatists/JUnitParams/1.1.1/JUnitParams-1.1.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/4.13.2/junit-4.13.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/junit/junit/4.13.2/junit-4.13.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/2.2/hamcrest-core-2.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/2.2/hamcrest-core-2.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest/2.2/hamcrest-2.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest/2.2/hamcrest-2.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/2.0.9/slf4j-api-2.0.9.jar"/>
+</classpath>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dataformat-core/.gitignore b/dataformat-core/.gitignore
index 298ee54de..621ed5023 100644
--- a/dataformat-core/.gitignore
+++ b/dataformat-core/.gitignore
@@ -23,8 +23,4 @@ local.properties
 .settings/
 .loadpath
 .recommenders
-
-.classpath
-.project
-
 testJsonSerialization.json
diff --git a/dataformat-core/.project b/dataformat-core/.project
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bedbd39dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataformat-core/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+  <name>dataformat-core</name>
+  <comment>Eclipse AAS Model for Java (AAS4J) implements the specification of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) such as metamodels, submodels, serialization and deserialization modules, and validators based on the AAS specifications.. NO_M2ECLIPSE_SUPPORT: Project files created with the maven-eclipse-plugin are not supported in M2Eclipse.</comment>
+  <projects>
+    <project>model</project>
+  </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
diff --git a/dataformat-core/pom.xml b/dataformat-core/pom.xml
index 6f62bb325..8f2f9b72d 100644
--- a/dataformat-core/pom.xml
+++ b/dataformat-core/pom.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
         <groupId>org.eclipse.digitaltwin.aas4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>dataformat-parent</artifactId>
         <version>${revision}</version>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>dataformat-core</artifactId>
     <name>Asset Administration Shell Serializer Core</name>
diff --git a/dataformat-json/.classpath b/dataformat-json/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..13577ee21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataformat-json/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java" output="target/test-classes" including="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/resources" output="target/test-classes" excluding="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java" including="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/resources" excluding="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="/dataformat-core"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="/model"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-databind/2.15.2/jackson-databind-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-annotations/2.15.2/jackson-annotations-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-core/2.15.2/jackson-core-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/io/github/classgraph/classgraph/4.8.162/classgraph-4.8.162.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/guava/32.1.3-jre/guava-32.1.3-jre.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/failureaccess/1.0.1/failureaccess-1.0.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/failureaccess/1.0.1/failureaccess-1.0.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/listenablefuture/9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava/listenablefuture-9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/3.0.2/jsr305-3.0.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/3.0.2/jsr305-3.0.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/checkerframework/checker-qual/3.37.0/checker-qual-3.37.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.21.1/error_prone_annotations-2.21.1.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/j2objc/j2objc-annotations/2.8/j2objc-annotations-2.8.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.13.0/commons-lang3-3.13.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/2.0.9/slf4j-api-2.0.9.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/vaadin/external/google/android-json/0.0.20131108.vaadin1/android-json-0.0.20131108.vaadin1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/vaadin/external/google/android-json/0.0.20131108.vaadin1/android-json-0.0.20131108.vaadin1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/networknt/json-schema-validator/1.0.87/json-schema-validator-1.0.87.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/ethlo/time/itu/1.7.0/itu-1.7.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/jackson-dataformat-yaml/2.15.2/jackson-dataformat-yaml-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/yaml/snakeyaml/2.0/snakeyaml-2.0.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/yaml/snakeyaml/2.0/snakeyaml-2.0-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/pl/pragmatists/JUnitParams/1.1.1/JUnitParams-1.1.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/pl/pragmatists/JUnitParams/1.1.1/JUnitParams-1.1.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/4.13.2/junit-4.13.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/junit/junit/4.13.2/junit-4.13.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/2.2/hamcrest-core-2.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/2.2/hamcrest-core-2.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest/2.2/hamcrest-2.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest/2.2/hamcrest-2.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/skyscreamer/jsonassert/1.5.1/jsonassert-1.5.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/skyscreamer/jsonassert/1.5.1/jsonassert-1.5.1-sources.jar"/>
+</classpath>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dataformat-json/.gitignore b/dataformat-json/.gitignore
index 298ee54de..621ed5023 100644
--- a/dataformat-json/.gitignore
+++ b/dataformat-json/.gitignore
@@ -23,8 +23,4 @@ local.properties
 .settings/
 .loadpath
 .recommenders
-
-.classpath
-.project
-
 testJsonSerialization.json
diff --git a/dataformat-json/.project b/dataformat-json/.project
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5db348ef4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataformat-json/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+  <name>dataformat-json</name>
+  <comment>Eclipse AAS Model for Java (AAS4J) implements the specification of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) such as metamodels, submodels, serialization and deserialization modules, and validators based on the AAS specifications.. NO_M2ECLIPSE_SUPPORT: Project files created with the maven-eclipse-plugin are not supported in M2Eclipse.</comment>
+  <projects>
+    <project>dataformat-core</project>
+    <project>model</project>
+  </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
diff --git a/dataformat-json/pom.xml b/dataformat-json/pom.xml
index 04ab7de87..efcc257cb 100644
--- a/dataformat-json/pom.xml
+++ b/dataformat-json/pom.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
         <groupId>org.eclipse.digitaltwin.aas4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>dataformat-parent</artifactId>
         <version>${revision}</version>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>dataformat-json</artifactId>
     <name>Asset Administration Shell JSON-Serializer</name>
diff --git a/dataformat-xml/.classpath b/dataformat-xml/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b98ad222d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataformat-xml/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java" output="target/test-classes" including="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/resources" output="target/test-classes" excluding="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java" including="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/resources" excluding="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="/dataformat-core"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="/model"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-databind/2.15.2/jackson-databind-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-annotations/2.15.2/jackson-annotations-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-core/2.15.2/jackson-core-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/io/github/classgraph/classgraph/4.8.162/classgraph-4.8.162.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/guava/32.1.3-jre/guava-32.1.3-jre.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/failureaccess/1.0.1/failureaccess-1.0.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/failureaccess/1.0.1/failureaccess-1.0.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/guava/listenablefuture/9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava/listenablefuture-9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/3.0.2/jsr305-3.0.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/3.0.2/jsr305-3.0.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/checkerframework/checker-qual/3.37.0/checker-qual-3.37.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.21.1/error_prone_annotations-2.21.1.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/google/j2objc/j2objc-annotations/2.8/j2objc-annotations-2.8.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.13.0/commons-lang3-3.13.0.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/2.0.9/slf4j-api-2.0.9.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/jackson-dataformat-xml/2.15.2/jackson-dataformat-xml-2.15.2.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/codehaus/woodstox/stax2-api/4.2.1/stax2-api-4.2.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/codehaus/woodstox/stax2-api/4.2.1/stax2-api-4.2.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/woodstox/woodstox-core/6.5.1/woodstox-core-6.5.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/com/fasterxml/woodstox/woodstox-core/6.5.1/woodstox-core-6.5.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/xmlunit/xmlunit-core/2.9.1/xmlunit-core-2.9.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/xmlunit/xmlunit-core/2.9.1/xmlunit-core-2.9.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/jakarta/xml/bind/jakarta.xml.bind-api/2.3.3/jakarta.xml.bind-api-2.3.3.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/jakarta/xml/bind/jakarta.xml.bind-api/2.3.3/jakarta.xml.bind-api-2.3.3-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/jakarta/activation/jakarta.activation-api/1.2.2/jakarta.activation-api-1.2.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/jakarta/activation/jakarta.activation-api/1.2.2/jakarta.activation-api-1.2.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/xmlunit/xmlunit-matchers/2.9.1/xmlunit-matchers-2.9.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/xmlunit/xmlunit-matchers/2.9.1/xmlunit-matchers-2.9.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/2.2/hamcrest-core-2.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/2.2/hamcrest-core-2.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest/2.2/hamcrest-2.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/org/hamcrest/hamcrest/2.2/hamcrest-2.2-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/pl/pragmatists/JUnitParams/1.1.1/JUnitParams-1.1.1.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/pl/pragmatists/JUnitParams/1.1.1/JUnitParams-1.1.1-sources.jar"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/4.13.2/junit-4.13.2.jar" sourcepath="M2_REPO/junit/junit/4.13.2/junit-4.13.2-sources.jar"/>
+</classpath>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dataformat-xml/.gitignore b/dataformat-xml/.gitignore
index 520731e01..621ed5023 100644
--- a/dataformat-xml/.gitignore
+++ b/dataformat-xml/.gitignore
@@ -23,9 +23,4 @@ local.properties
 .settings/
 .loadpath
 .recommenders
-
-.classpath
-.project
-
 testJsonSerialization.json
-
diff --git a/dataformat-xml/.project b/dataformat-xml/.project
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6c3f5c58e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataformat-xml/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+  <name>dataformat-xml</name>
+  <comment>Eclipse AAS Model for Java (AAS4J) implements the specification of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) such as metamodels, submodels, serialization and deserialization modules, and validators based on the AAS specifications.. NO_M2ECLIPSE_SUPPORT: Project files created with the maven-eclipse-plugin are not supported in M2Eclipse.</comment>
+  <projects>
+    <project>dataformat-core</project>
+    <project>model</project>
+  </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
diff --git a/dataformat-xml/pom.xml b/dataformat-xml/pom.xml
index 4ed49f74a..d680d02a1 100644
--- a/dataformat-xml/pom.xml
+++ b/dataformat-xml/pom.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
         <groupId>org.eclipse.digitaltwin.aas4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>dataformat-parent</artifactId>
         <version>${revision}</version>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>dataformat-xml</artifactId>
     <name>Asset Administration Shell XML-Serializer</name>
diff --git a/model/.classpath b/model/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7a338a519
--- /dev/null
+++ b/model/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java" including="**/*.java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
+</classpath>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/model/.gitignore b/model/.gitignore
index 88f9d6a54..cc9ddc337 100644
--- a/model/.gitignore
+++ b/model/.gitignore
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ local.properties
 .loadpath
 .recommenders
 *.iml
-
-.classpath
-.project
-
 **/.flattened-pom.xml
 **/nb-configuration.xml
 **.iml
diff --git a/model/.project b/model/.project
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9f7c3a99e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/model/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+  <name>model</name>
+  <comment>This project includes a Java representation of the classes defined in the Asset Administration Shell ontology. 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
diff --git a/model/pom.xml b/model/pom.xml
index af5720aa9..a3d5e3244 100644
--- a/model/pom.xml
+++ b/model/pom.xml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
         <artifactId>dataformat-parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.eclipse.digitaltwin.aas4j</groupId>
         <version>${revision}</version>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>model</artifactId>