diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c1459c4..eac4007 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ classes/
 lib/
 *.jar
 /storm-kafka/target/
-/storm-kafka/.idea/
\ No newline at end of file
+/storm-kafka/.idea/
+target
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 91ff148..258ef8a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,12 +10,16 @@
   <description>A collection of spouts, bolts, serializers, DSLs, and other goodies to use with Storm</description>
   <url>http://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-contrib</url>
 
+  <properties>
+    <storm.version>0.9.0</storm.version>
+  </properties>
+  
   <dependencyManagement>
     <dependencies>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>storm</groupId>
-        <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
-        <version>0.6.1</version>
+        <artifactId>storm-core</artifactId>
+        <version>${storm.version}</version>
         <scope>provided</scope>
       </dependency>
     </dependencies>
@@ -29,14 +33,14 @@
   </repositories>
 
   <modules>
-    <module>storm-contrib-clockspout</module>
+    <module>storm-jms</module>
+    <!-- <module>storm-clockspout</module> -->
     <module>storm-hbase</module>
-    <module>storm-mongo</module>
+    <!-- <module>storm-mongo</module> -->
     <module>storm-signals</module>
     <module>storm-rdbms</module>
-    <module>storm-cassandra</module>
-    <module>storm-jms</module>
-    <module>storm-growl</module>
+    <!-- <module>storm-cassandra</module> -->
+    <!-- <module>storm-growl</module> -->
     <module>storm-sqs</module>
   </modules>
 </project>
diff --git a/storm-rdbms/pom.xml b/storm-rdbms/pom.xml
index ebe17c4..4483865 100644
--- a/storm-rdbms/pom.xml
+++ b/storm-rdbms/pom.xml
@@ -12,16 +12,23 @@
   <name>storm-rdbms</name>
   <description>Component for RDBMS as a Storm Bolt</description>
 
+  <properties>
+    <storm.version>0.9.0</storm.version>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+  </properties>
+  
   <dependencies>
-  	<dependency>
-  	  <groupId>storm</groupId>
-  	  <artifactId>storm</artifactId>
-  	</dependency>
     <dependency>
-       <groupId>mysql</groupId>
-       <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
-       <version>5.1.1</version>
-       <scope>runtime</scope>
+      <groupId>storm</groupId>
+      <artifactId>storm-core</artifactId>
+      <version>${storm.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>mysql</groupId>
+      <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
+      <version>5.1.1</version>
+      <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>
     
   </dependencies>
@@ -40,7 +47,4 @@
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
-  <properties>
-    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-  </properties>
 </project>