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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Provides means to append logging events into various databases. The persisted data can be later read back using {@link org.apache.log4j.db.DBReceiver}.
+ * <p>
+ * Most popular database systems, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2 and MsSQL are supported.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Just as importantly, the way for obtaining JDBC connections is pluggable. Connections can be obtained through the traditional way of DriverManager, or
+ * alternatively as a DataSource. A DataSource can be instantiated directly or it can obtained through JNDI.
+ * </p>
+ */
+package org.apache.log4j.db;
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-<!--
-  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- 
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- 
-  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  limitations under the License.
--->
-
-<html>
-<body>
-
-<p>The org.apache.log4j.db package provides means to append logging events
-  into various databases. The persisted data can be later read back using
-  {@link org.apache.log4j.db.DBReceiver}.
-</p>
-
-<p>Most popular database systems, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2 and MsSQL
-  are supported.
-</p>
-
-<p>Just as importantly, the way for obtaining JDBC connections is pluggable. Connections can
-  be obtained through the tradinal way of DriverManager, or alternatively as a DataSource.
-  A DataSource can be instantiated directly or it can obtained through JNDI.
-</p>
-
-</body>
-</html>