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 <h2><a name="Prerequisites"></a>Prerequisites</h2>
 <P>
-OpenJPA requires Java 1.5 but will not compile with Java 6. For more
-detail please see <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-5">
-http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-5</a>
+In normal usage, OpenJPA requires Java 5 or higher and a relational 
+database of some sort.
 
 <h2><a name="Documentation"></a>Documentation</h2>
 <p>If you have questions about OpenJPA, a good source of information is the