diff --git a/hazelcast/pom.xml b/hazelcast/pom.xml
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+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+    <artifactId>hazelcast</artifactId>
+    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>hazelcast</name>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.hazelcast</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hazelcast</artifactId>
+            <version>${hazelcast.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.hazelcast</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hazelcast-client</artifactId>
+            <version>3.7.2</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
+        <!-- utils -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <finalName>hazelcast</finalName>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <filtering>true</filtering>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>1.8</source>
+                    <target>1.8</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <properties>
+        <!-- hazelcast -->
+        <hazelcast.version>3.7.2</hazelcast.version>
+        
+        <!-- logging -->
+        <org.slf4j.version>1.7.21</org.slf4j.version>
+        <logback.version>1.1.7</logback.version>
+
+        <!-- maven plugins -->
+        <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.5.1</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
+    </properties>
+
+</project>
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diff --git a/hazelcast/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hazelcast/cluster/NativeClient.java b/hazelcast/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hazelcast/cluster/NativeClient.java
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+package com.baeldung.hazelcast.cluster;
+
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+
+import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
+import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
+import com.hazelcast.config.GroupConfig;
+import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
+import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
+
+public class NativeClient {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
+        ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
+        GroupConfig groupConfig = config.getGroupConfig();
+        groupConfig.setName("dev");
+        groupConfig.setPassword("dev-pass");
+        HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstanceClient = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
+        IMap<Long, String> map = hazelcastInstanceClient.getMap("data");
+        for (Entry<Long, String> entry : map.entrySet()) {
+            System.out.println(String.format("Key: %d, Value: %s", entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()));
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hazelcast/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hazelcast/cluster/ServerNode.java b/hazelcast/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hazelcast/cluster/ServerNode.java
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+++ b/hazelcast/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hazelcast/cluster/ServerNode.java
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+package com.baeldung.hazelcast.cluster;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
+import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
+import com.hazelcast.core.IdGenerator;
+
+public class ServerNode {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance();
+        Map<Long, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap("data");
+        IdGenerator idGenerator = hazelcastInstance.getIdGenerator("newid");
+        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+            map.put(idGenerator.newId(), "message" + 1);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hazelcast/src/main/resources/hazelcast.xml b/hazelcast/src/main/resources/hazelcast.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<hazelcast xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.hazelcast.com/schema/config hazelcast-config-3.7.xsd"
+           xmlns="http://www.hazelcast.com/schema/config"
+           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+    <network>
+        <port auto-increment="true" port-count="20">5701</port>
+        <join>
+            <multicast enabled="false">
+	        </multicast>
+	      	<tcp-ip enabled="true">
+	        	<member>machine1</member>
+		        <member>localhost</member>
+	      	</tcp-ip>
+        </join>
+    </network>
+</hazelcast>
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diff --git a/hazelcast/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/hazelcast/src/main/resources/logback.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+
+	<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+		<layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
+		      <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg %n</pattern>
+	    </layout>
+	</appender>
+
+	<logger name="com.baeldung.hazelcast" level="INFO" additivity="false">
+		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+  	</logger>
+
+	<root level="DEBUG">          
+		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+	</root>  
+  
+</configuration>
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