diff --git a/scouter/Cargo.lock b/scouter/Cargo.lock
index 24acf05..5c250de 100644
--- a/scouter/Cargo.lock
+++ b/scouter/Cargo.lock
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ name = "libc"
 version = "0.2.48"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "peresil"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
 version = "0.4.27"
@@ -73,6 +78,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-xid 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "quick-error"
+version = "1.2.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quote"
 version = "0.6.11"
@@ -96,6 +106,8 @@ name = "scouter"
 version = "0.0.1"
 dependencies = [
  "cargo_metadata 0.7.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "sxd-document 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "sxd-xpath 0.4.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -137,6 +149,25 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde 1.0.88 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sxd-document"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "peresil 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "typed-arena 1.4.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "sxd-xpath"
+version = "0.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "peresil 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "quick-error 1.2.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "sxd-document 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
 version = "0.15.26"
@@ -147,6 +178,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-xid 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "typed-arena"
+version = "1.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-xid"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -181,7 +217,9 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 "checksum error-chain 0.12.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "07e791d3be96241c77c43846b665ef1384606da2cd2a48730abe606a12906e02"
 "checksum itoa 0.4.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "1306f3464951f30e30d12373d31c79fbd52d236e5e896fd92f96ec7babbbe60b"
 "checksum libc 0.2.48 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "e962c7641008ac010fa60a7dfdc1712449f29c44ef2d4702394aea943ee75047"
+"checksum peresil 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "f658886ed52e196e850cfbbfddab9eaa7f6d90dd0929e264c31e5cec07e09e57"
 "checksum proc-macro2 0.4.27 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "4d317f9caece796be1980837fd5cb3dfec5613ebdb04ad0956deea83ce168915"
+"checksum quick-error 1.2.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "9274b940887ce9addde99c4eee6b5c44cc494b182b97e73dc8ffdcb3397fd3f0"
 "checksum quote 0.6.11 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "cdd8e04bd9c52e0342b406469d494fcb033be4bdbe5c606016defbb1681411e1"
 "checksum rustc-demangle 0.1.13 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "adacaae16d02b6ec37fdc7acfcddf365978de76d1983d3ee22afc260e1ca9619"
 "checksum ryu 0.2.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "eb9e9b8cde282a9fe6a42dd4681319bfb63f121b8a8ee9439c6f4107e58a46f7"
@@ -190,7 +228,10 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 "checksum serde 1.0.88 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "9f301d728f2b94c9a7691c90f07b0b4e8a4517181d9461be94c04bddeb4bd850"
 "checksum serde_derive 1.0.88 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "beed18e6f5175aef3ba670e57c60ef3b1b74d250d962a26604bff4c80e970dd4"
 "checksum serde_json 1.0.38 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "27dce848e7467aa0e2fcaf0a413641499c0b745452aaca1194d24dedde9e13c9"
+"checksum sxd-document 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "7f9daa5f04135690dcb001fd5d4f1d536d62e988262954e68abb3ab7db36a4f9"
+"checksum sxd-xpath 0.4.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "36e39da5d30887b5690e29de4c5ebb8ddff64ebd9933f98a01daaa4fd11b36ea"
 "checksum syn 0.15.26 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "f92e629aa1d9c827b2bb8297046c1ccffc57c99b947a680d3ccff1f136a3bee9"
+"checksum typed-arena 1.4.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "c6c06a92aef38bb4dc5b0df00d68496fc31307c5344c867bb61678c6e1671ec5"
 "checksum unicode-xid 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "fc72304796d0818e357ead4e000d19c9c174ab23dc11093ac919054d20a6a7fc"
 "checksum winapi 0.3.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "92c1eb33641e276cfa214a0522acad57be5c56b10cb348b3c5117db75f3ac4b0"
 "checksum winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu 0.4.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "ac3b87c63620426dd9b991e5ce0329eff545bccbbb34f3be09ff6fb6ab51b7b6"
diff --git a/scouter/Cargo.toml b/scouter/Cargo.toml
index 24cb402..99f4631 100644
--- a/scouter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/scouter/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
 cargo_metadata = "0.7.1"
+sxd-xpath = "0.4.2"
+sxd-document = "0.3.0"
diff --git a/scouter/src/lib.rs b/scouter/src/lib.rs
index 64da62b..77f4f76 100644
--- a/scouter/src/lib.rs
+++ b/scouter/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::process::Command;
 
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
 pub enum ProjectType {
@@ -35,9 +36,9 @@ impl Project {
     
     pub fn info(&self) -> ProjectInfo {
         match self.project_type {
-            ProjectType::Maven => ProjectInfo {
-                name: "placeholder".into(),
-                version: "placeholder".into()
+            ProjectType::Maven => {
+                let effective_pom = self.read_effective_pom();
+                ProjectInfo::from_pom(&effective_pom)
             },
             ProjectType::Npm => ProjectInfo {
                 name: "placeholder".into(),
@@ -53,6 +54,21 @@ impl Project {
             .exec()
             .expect("metadata call failed")
     }
+    
+    fn read_effective_pom(&self) -> sxd_document::Package {
+        let full_output = std::str::from_utf8(&Command::new("mvn")
+            .arg("help:effective-pom")
+            .current_dir(&self.path)
+            .output()
+            .expect("failed to generate effective pom")
+            .stdout).expect("failed to generate string from output").to_owned();
+        let xml = full_output.get(
+            full_output.find("<?xml").expect("failed to find start of xml")
+            ..
+            full_output.find("</project>").expect("failed to find end of xml") + 10
+        ).expect("failed to extract xml body");
+        sxd_document::parser::parse(xml).expect("failed to parse effective pom")
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -77,6 +93,32 @@ impl From<cargo_metadata::Metadata> for ProjectInfo {
     }
 }
 
+impl ProjectInfo {
+    fn from_pom(pom: &sxd_document::Package) -> Self {
+        let document = pom.as_document();
+        
+        let mut context = sxd_xpath::context::Context::new();
+        context.set_namespace("mvn", "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0");
+        
+        let factory = sxd_xpath::Factory::new();
+        let name_xpath = factory.build("/mvn:project/mvn:name")
+            .expect("failed to compile name xpath")
+            .expect("No XPath was compiled");
+        let version_xpath = factory.build("/mvn:project/mvn:version")
+            .expect("failed to compile name xpath")
+            .expect("No XPath was compiled");
+        
+        ProjectInfo {
+            name: name_xpath.evaluate(&context, document.root())
+                .expect("failed to evaluate name expression")
+                .into_string(),
+            version: version_xpath.evaluate(&context, document.root())
+                .expect("failed to evaluate version expression")
+                .into_string(),
+        }        
+    }
+}
+
 pub struct Scouter {
     search_path: PathBuf
 }
@@ -129,4 +171,14 @@ mod test {
         assert_eq!(env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), project_info.name);
         assert_eq!(env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"), project_info.version);
     }
+    
+    #[test]
+    fn test_maven_project() {
+        let mut scouter = Scouter::new(format!("{}/testdata/maven", env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")));
+        let project = scouter.next().unwrap();
+        let project_info = project.info();
+        assert_eq!(ProjectType::Maven, project.project_type);
+        assert_eq!("Shenlong Maven Test Project", project_info.name);
+        assert_eq!("1.0.0-SNAPSHOT", project_info.version);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/scouter/testdata/maven/pom.xml b/scouter/testdata/maven/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d85746
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scouter/testdata/maven/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<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>
+
+    <groupId>net.monarchpass</groupId>
+    <artifactId>shenlong-maven-test</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+    <name>Shenlong Maven Test Project</name>
+
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.11</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
+            <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
+            <version>1.1.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.8.0</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>7</source>
+                    <target>7</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>