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 Bundle implementing form based authentication with login and logout support.
 Authentication state is maintained in a Cookie or in an HTTP Session. The
 password is only submitted when first authenticating.
-
-Getting Started
-===============
-
-This component uses a Maven 2 (http://maven.apache.org/) build
-environment. It requires a Java 5 JDK (or higher) and Maven
-(http://maven.apache.org/) 2.2.1 or later. We recommend to use the latest
-Maven version.
-
-If you have Maven 2 installed, you can compile and
-package the jar using the following command:
-
-    mvn package
-
-See the Maven 2 documentation for other build features.
-
-The latest source code for this component is available in the
-Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) source repository of
-the Apache Software Foundation. If you have Subversion installed,
-you can checkout the latest source using the following command:
-
-    svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/bundles/extensions/formauth
-
-See the Subversion documentation for other source control features.
-