diff --git a/main/pom.xml b/main/pom.xml
index 3d073b44c..09b489321 100644
--- a/main/pom.xml
+++ b/main/pom.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
         <directory>tests/data</directory>
       </testResource>
     </testResources>
+    <outputDirectory>webapp/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d799c7b80..1ed7b47a2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -186,248 +186,9 @@
   </build>
 
   <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-      <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
-      <version>2.5</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
-      <version>6.1.22</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jetty-util</artifactId>
-      <version>6.1.22</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.codeberry.jdatapath</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jdatapath</artifactId>
-      <version>alpha2</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>edu.mit.simile</groupId>
-      <artifactId>butterfly</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.mozilla</groupId>
-      <artifactId>rhino</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.10</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-      <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-      <version>13.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.json</groupId>
-      <artifactId>json</artifactId>
-      <version>20160810</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-      <version>2.9.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>2.9.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.18</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.18</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-      <version>3.6</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
-      <version>1.8.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-        <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
-        <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
-        <version>3.2.2</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>velocity</groupId>
-      <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
-      <version>1.5</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>marc4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>marc4j</artifactId>
-      <version>2.4</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
-      <artifactId>ant</artifactId> <!-- for org.apache.tools.bzip2 -->
-      <version>1.8.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
-      <version>1.4.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>net.sf.opencsv</groupId>
-      <artifactId>opencsv</artifactId>
-      <version>2.4-refine-20130712</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
-      <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
-      <version>3.8</version> <!-- in classpath: 3.13-20150929 -->
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
-      <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
-      <version>3.8</version> <!-- in classpath: 3.13-20150929 -->
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.odftoolkit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>odfdom-java</artifactId>
-      <version>0.8.8-incubating</version> <!-- in classpath: 0.8.7 -->
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.ibm.icu</groupId>
-      <artifactId>icu4j</artifactId>
-      <version>4.0.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>edu.mit.simile</groupId>
-      <artifactId>vicino</artifactId>
-      <version>1.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>oauth.signpost</groupId>
-      <artifactId>signpost-core</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2.1.2</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>oauth.signpost</groupId>
-      <artifactId>signpost-commonshttp4</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2.1.2</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
-      <artifactId>clojure</artifactId>
-      <version>1.5.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-      <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-      <version>4.5.5</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-      <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-      <version>4.4.9</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.sweble.wikitext</groupId>
-      <artifactId>swc-parser-lazy</artifactId>
-      <version>3.1.7</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.everit.json</groupId>
-      <artifactId>org.everit.json.schema</artifactId>
-      <version>1.5.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.frictionlessdata</groupId>
-      <artifactId>datapackage-java</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.frictionlessdata</groupId>
-      <artifactId>tableschema-java</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
-      <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
-      <version>2.9.9</version>
-    </dependency>
-    
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jena-arq</artifactId>
-      <version>3.6.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jena-base</artifactId>
-      <version>3.6.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jena-cmds</artifactId>
-      <version>3.6.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jena-core</artifactId>
-      <version>3.6.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.metaweb</groupId>
-      <artifactId>lessen</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-
-
-
-
-
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
-      <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
-      <version>6.9.10</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-      <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-      <version>2.8.9</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>junit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>4.12</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
-      <artifactId>powermock-module-junit4</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.1</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
-      <artifactId>powermock-api-mockito2</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.1</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
+     <!-- dependencies are stored in the relevant submodules:
+          see main/pom.xml, server/pom.xml and each extension.
+       -->
   </dependencies>
 
   <repositories>
diff --git a/server/pom.xml b/server/pom.xml
index c61b44dfe..287f180ff 100644
--- a/server/pom.xml
+++ b/server/pom.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
         <directory>src</directory>
       </resource>
     </resources>
+    <outputDirectory>classes</outputDirectory>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>