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+Parent POM for builds of Taverna Workbench, Command-Line and Platform
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+Supplies Version number constants for all the main Taverna dependencies.
+Adds in shared Maven build and reporting steps
+List repositories to be used.
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+This doess NOT conatin a <modules> section so does NOT do Project Aggregation.
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+This code was previously hosted at http://taverna.googlecode.com/svn/taverna/taverna-parent/
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