diff --git a/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.classpath b/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af1430be1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/java">
+		<attributes>
+			<attribute name="optional" value="true"/>
+			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
+		</attributes>
+	</classpathentry>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/test-classes" path="src/test/java">
+		<attributes>
+			<attribute name="optional" value="true"/>
+			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
+		</attributes>
+	</classpathentry>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.8">
+		<attributes>
+			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
+		</attributes>
+	</classpathentry>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
+		<attributes>
+			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
+		</attributes>
+	</classpathentry>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.gitignore b/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.gitignore
index 59fbda98c..3bc9195e0 100644
--- a/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.gitignore
+++ b/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-/.classpath
-/.project
 !repo/**/*.jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.project b/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.project
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a2d458426
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vscode-extensions/commons/application-properties-metadata/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>application-properties-metadata</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/vscode-extensions/vscode-application-yaml/scripts/preinstall.sh b/vscode-extensions/vscode-application-yaml/scripts/preinstall.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e636a7a34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vscode-extensions/vscode-application-yaml/scripts/preinstall.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+(cd ../commons-vscode ; npm install)
+npm install ../commons-vscode
+../mvnw -f ../pom.xml -pl vscode-application-yaml -am clean package