diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
index 88880c2a..37663fab 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 <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>
   <parent>
     <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-client-pom</artifactId>
     <groupId>software.amazon.kinesis</groupId>
     <version>${revision}</version>
   </parent>
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-client-multilang</artifactId>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 972562a8..e5458022 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -73,6 +73,33 @@
   </distributionManagement>
 
   <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>flatten-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <!--<version>1.4.0</version>-->
+        <configuration>
+        </configuration>
+        <executions>
+          <!-- enable flattening -->
+          <execution>
+            <id>flatten</id>
+            <phase>process-resources</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>flatten</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+          <!-- ensure proper cleanup -->
+          <execution>
+            <id>flatten.clean</id>
+            <phase>clean</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>clean</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
     <pluginManagement>
       <plugins>
         <plugin>