diff --git a/javax-servlets/.gitignore b/javax-servlets/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a51a433798
--- /dev/null
+++ b/javax-servlets/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Created by .ignore support plugin (hsz.mobi)
+.idea
+classes
+target
+*.iml
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diff --git a/javax-servlets/classes/artifacts/ServletmavenExample_war_exploded/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/javax-servlets/classes/artifacts/ServletmavenExample_war_exploded/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
deleted file mode 100644
index e8d1783f02..0000000000
--- a/javax-servlets/classes/artifacts/ServletmavenExample_war_exploded/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Manifest-Version: 1.0
-Built-By: shubham
-Created-By: IntelliJ IDEA
-Build-Jdk: 1.8.0_91
-
diff --git a/javax-servlets/classes/artifacts/ServletmavenExample_war_exploded/WEB-INF/web.xml b/javax-servlets/classes/artifacts/ServletmavenExample_war_exploded/WEB-INF/web.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 66934d8fd3..0000000000
--- a/javax-servlets/classes/artifacts/ServletmavenExample_war_exploded/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
-         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
-         version="3.1">
-
-</web-app>
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diff --git a/javax-servlets/classes/artifacts/ServletmavenExample_war_exploded/index.jsp b/javax-servlets/classes/artifacts/ServletmavenExample_war_exploded/index.jsp
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a2e018a41..0000000000
--- a/javax-servlets/classes/artifacts/ServletmavenExample_war_exploded/index.jsp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
-<html>
-<head>
-    <title>Calculate BMI</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-
-<form name="bmiForm" action="calculateServlet" method="POST">
-
-    <table>
-        <tr>
-            <td>Your Weight (kg) :</td>
-            <td><input type="text" name="weight"/></td>
-        </tr>
-        <tr>
-            <td>Your Height (m) :</td>
-            <td><input type="text" name="height"/></td>
-        </tr>
-        <th><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="find"/></th>
-        <th><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset" /></th>
-    </table>
-    <h2>${bmi}</h2>
-</form>
-
-</body>
-</html>
diff --git a/javax-servlets/pom.xml b/javax-servlets/pom.xml
index 76434a8589..4fe4575e48 100644
--- a/javax-servlets/pom.xml
+++ b/javax-servlets/pom.xml
@@ -13,22 +13,27 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
             <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.0</version>
+            <version>${javax.servlet.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.12</version>
+            <version>${junit.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-            <version>4.5</version>
+            <version>${org.apache.httpcomponents.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
 
+    <properties>
+        <javax.servlet.version>3.1.0</javax.servlet.version>
+        <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
+        <org.apache.httpcomponents.version>4.5</org.apache.httpcomponents.version>
+    </properties>
 
 </project>
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