Retirement notice
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See our website at https://juddi.apache.org
+# NOTICE
+
+December 2023 - Apache jUDDI discussed potentially retiring the project.
+An annoucement was made via the ASF mailing lists. No response was received.
+
+January 2023 - Apache jUDDI PCM team held a formal vote (it passed) to retire the project.
+It will be moving to the Apache Attic in the near future. See https://attic.apache.org/ for additional details.
+
+## What does this mean?
+
+If you're still using Apache jUDDI, there will be no more releases from
+the jUDDI team at Apache. The source code and binaries will always be
+available, however there will be no support for security updates, patches,
+or new features.
+
+We recommend to find a new solution, mitgrate to a different product,
+or if you're willing, fork Apache jUDDI and perform your own maintenance.
+
+
# Building
1) Acquire a JDK8 and setup the JAVA_HOME environment variable
