diff --git a/lib/com/db4o/db4o-all/8.0.249.16098/db4o-all-8.0.249.16098.pom b/lib/com/db4o/db4o-all/8.0.249.16098/db4o-all-8.0.249.16098.pom
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5c1c1ff2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/com/db4o/db4o-all/8.0.249.16098/db4o-all-8.0.249.16098.pom
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>com.db4o</groupId>
+  <artifactId>db4o-all</artifactId>
+  <version>8.0.249.16098</version>
+  <description>POM was created from install:install-file</description>
+</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0d337a38d..106c2e611 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ along with DependencyCheck.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
     </properties>
-    
-    <!-- if we use db4o we will need this: http://blog.dub.podval.org/2010/01/maven-in-project-repository.html
+
+    <!-- used to make db4o available as a lib: http://blog.dub.podval.org/2010/01/maven-in-project-repository.html -->
     <repositories>
         <repository>
             <id>lib</id>
@@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ along with DependencyCheck.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
             <url>file://${project.basedir}/lib</url>
         </repository>
     </repositories>
-    -->
-    
+
     <build>
         <resources>
             <resource>
@@ -484,6 +483,11 @@ along with DependencyCheck.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
                 </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.db4o</groupId>
+            <artifactId>db4o-all</artifactId>
+            <version>8.0.249.16098</version>
+        </dependency>
         <!--
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.fusesource.hawtdb</groupId>