diff --git a/taverna-scufl2-cwl/pom.xml b/taverna-scufl2-cwl/pom.xml
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+<?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.
+-->
+<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.taverna.language</groupId>
+    <artifactId>apache-taverna-language</artifactId>
+    <version>0.16.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>taverna-scufl2-cwl</artifactId>
+  <packaging>bundle</packaging>
+  <name>Apache Taverna Scufl 2 CWL parser</name>
+  <description>Parser for .cwl file format</description>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+      <artifactId>taverna-scufl2-api</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+      <version>${commons.io.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/taverna-scufl2-cwl/src/main/java/org/apache/taverna/scufl2/cwl/Parser.java b/taverna-scufl2-cwl/src/main/java/org/apache/taverna/scufl2/cwl/Parser.java
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+package org.apache.taverna.scufl2.cwl;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+
+public class Parser {
+
+    private String yamlLine;
+    private int fileLength;
+
+    private Map<Integer, String> yamlFile = null;
+
+    public Parser(File file) {
+        int counter = 0;
+
+        yamlFile = new HashMap<>();
+
+        FileReader yamlFileDescriptor = null;
+
+
+        try {
+            yamlFileDescriptor = new FileReader(file);
+            BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(yamlFileDescriptor);
+            String parent = null;
+            int parentDepth = 0;
+            while((yamlLine = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
+
+                yamlFile.put(counter, yamlLine);
+                counter = counter + 1;
+            }
+
+            bufferedReader.close();
+            fileLength = counter;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            System.err.println("Parser init error: " + e );
+        }
+    }
+}