diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3b01089..6b02e1d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -304,11 +304,12 @@
 
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
-        <!--
         <configuration>
-          <descriptor>src/maven/assembly/bin-distro.xml</descriptor>
+          <descriptors>
+            <descriptor>src/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
+          </descriptors>
+          <tarLongFileMode>gnu</tarLongFileMode>
         </configuration>
-        -->
       </plugin>
 
     </plugins>
diff --git a/src/assembly/assembly.xml b/src/assembly/assembly.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..254ca36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/assembly/assembly.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<assembly>
+  <id></id>
+  <formats>
+    <format>tar.gz</format>
+    <format>zip</format>
+  </formats>
+  <!-- The generated documentation -->
+  <includeSiteDirectory>true</includeSiteDirectory>
+  <fileSets>
+    <fileSet>
+      <includes>
+        <include>build.properties.sample</include>
+        <include>build.xml</include>
+        <include>checkstyle.xml</include>
+        <include>license-header.txt</include>
+        <include>LICENSE.txt</include>
+        <include>maven.xml</include>
+        <include>NOTICE.txt</include>
+        <include>project.properties</include>
+        <include>project.xml</include>
+        <include>pom.xml</include>
+        <include>RELEASE-NOTES.txt</include>
+        <!-- The source -->
+        <include>src/</include>
+      </includes>
+    </fileSet>
+    <!-- All the jar files -->
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>target</directory>
+      <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
+      <includes>
+        <include>*.jar</include>
+      </includes>
+    </fileSet>
+  </fileSets>
+</assembly>