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 HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems written in java.  
 
-The project is hosted at github.com/cloudera/htrace.
-The project is available in Maven Central with groupId: org.cloudera.htrace, and name: htrace.
+The project is hosted at (http://github.com/cloudera/htrace).  
+The project is available in Maven Central with groupId: org.cloudera.htrace, and name: htrace.  
 
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