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+====
+
+    Copyright (C) 2009 Adrian Cole <adriancole@jclouds.org>
+
+    ====================================================================
+    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 samples uses the Google App Engine for Java SDK located at http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/files/appengine-java-sdk-1.2.0.zip
+
+Please unzip the above file and modify your maven settings.xml like below before attempting to run 'mvn install'
+
+    <profile>
+      <id>appengine</id>
+      <activation>
+        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+      </activation>
+      <properties>
+        <appengine.home>/path/to/appengine-java-sdk-1.2.0</appengine.home>
+      </properties>
+    </profile>
+
+    <profile>
+      <id>aws</id>
+      <activation>
+        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+      </activation>
+      <properties>
+        <jclouds.aws.accesskeyid>YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID</jclouds.aws.accesskeyid>
+        <jclouds.aws.secretaccesskey>YOUR_SECRET_KEY</jclouds.aws.secretaccesskey>
+      </properties>
+    </profile>
+
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <id>jclouds</id>
+            <url>http://jclouds.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/repo</url>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>