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This guide will help you get started using the OpenWire protocol library in your own applications.
To use the openwire library in your maven projects you need to add a dependency to your maven POM file for the core openwire library as follows:
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId> <artifactId>openwire-core</artifactId> <version>${project_version}</version> </dependency>
If you need to communicate with client's or brokers using older versions of the protocol then you must also include the legacy codec module:
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId> <artifactId>openwire-legacy</artifactId> <version>${project_version}</version> </dependency>