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-Hibernate Commons Annotations
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-Version: @version@, @releasedate@
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-Description
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-Hibernate Commons Annotations is a utility project used by annotations based
-Hibernate sub-projects.
-It's first scope is to support Java Generics type discovery.
-It's second scope is to support Java Annotations overriding through XML files
-(mainly but not conceptually limited to)
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-Instructions
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-Contact
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-Latest Documentation:
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-This project has no documentation per se, because of it's internal use focus.
-Please ask questions to the technical support forum.
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-Bug Reports:
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-   Hibernate JIRA (preferred)
-   hibernate-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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-Free Technical Support:
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-   http://forum.hibernate.org (http://forum.hibernate.org/viewforum.php?f=9)
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-Notes
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-If you want to contribute, go to http://www.hibernate.org/
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-This software and its documentation are distributed under the terms of the
-FSF Lesser Gnu Public License (see lgpl.txt).
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