diff --git a/dev/pom.xml b/dev/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7e1b2fa0cac48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ 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.
+  -->
+
+<!-- This dummy POM exists to work around a sbt-pom-reader limitation; see
+     https://github.com/sbt/sbt-pom-reader/issues/40 -->
+<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>
+    <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+    <artifactId>spark-parent_2.11</artifactId>
+    <version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+  <artifactId>spark-oldDeps.11</artifactId>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+  <name>Spark Project Old Deps</name>
+  <url>http://spark.apache.org/</url>
+  <properties>
+    <sbt.project.name>oldDeps</sbt.project.name>
+  </properties>
+</project>
diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 44ec3a12ae709..cfa218c0b2b74 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -24,3 +24,5 @@ libraryDependencies += "org.ow2.asm"  % "asm-commons" % "5.0.3"
 resolvers += "simplytyped" at "http://simplytyped.github.io/repo/releases"
 
 addSbtPlugin("com.simplytyped" % "sbt-antlr4" % "0.7.10")
+
+addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-pom-reader" % "2.1.0-RC2")
diff --git a/project/project/SparkPluginBuild.scala b/project/project/SparkPluginBuild.scala
deleted file mode 100644
index cbb88dc7dd1dd..0000000000000
--- a/project/project/SparkPluginBuild.scala
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * 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.
- */
-
-import sbt._
-import sbt.Keys._
-
-/**
- * This plugin project is there because we use our custom fork of sbt-pom-reader plugin. This is
- * a plugin project so that this gets compiled first and is available on the classpath for SBT build.
- */
-object SparkPluginDef extends Build {
-  lazy val root = Project("plugins", file(".")) dependsOn(sbtPomReader)
-  lazy val sbtPomReader = uri("https://github.com/ScrapCodes/sbt-pom-reader.git#ignore_artifact_id")
-}