diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2b646a7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" path="test"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.server.core.container/org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.runtimeTarget/Apache Tomcat v7.0">
+		<attributes>
+			<attribute name="owner.project.facets" value="jst.web"/>
+		</attributes>
+	</classpathentry>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.web.container"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.module.container"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/Java"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="build/classes"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 700b6555..a011a048 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 /target
 /build
-.classpath
 /RemoteSystemsTempFiles
 /bin/
-.project
 .settings
 .metadata
diff --git a/.project b/.project
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed1fe4a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>data_manager_backend</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.javascriptValidator</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.wst.validation.validationbuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>com.genuitec.eclipse.ast.deploy.core.DeploymentBuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jem.workbench.JavaEMFNature</nature>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.wst.common.modulecore.ModuleCoreNature</nature>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.nature</nature>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.jsNature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>