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 Jakarta Commons Collections
 ===========================
 
-Welcome to the Collections component of the Jakarta Commons
-project.
+Welcome to the Collections component of the Jakarta Commons project.
+This component contains many new collections and collection utilities.
 
-This component requires the excellent Ant utility.  It can 
-be found here :
+Two jar files are produced by this component.
+The first, commons-collections.jar is the main jar used by applications.
+The second, commons-collections-testframework.jar is an extension to junit
+for testing new collection implementations and is not normally used by applications.
+
+
+Building from source
+--------------------
+This component requires the excellent Ant utility.
+It can be found here :
 
   http://ant.apache.org/
 
@@ -38,3 +46,9 @@ $ ant doc
 To build the jar and API doc at once :
 
 $ ant dist
+
+
+Maven
+-----
+The component can also be built using Maven.
+http://maven.apache.org