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 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/)
-2.0.7 or later. We recommend to use the latest Maven version.
+This component uses a Maven (http://maven.apache.org/) build
+environment. It requires a Java 7 JDK (or higher) and Maven (http://maven.apache.org/)
+3.3.9 or later. We recommend to use the latest Maven version.
 
-If you have Maven 2 installed, you can compile and
+If you have Maven installed, you can compile and
 package the jar using the following command:
 
     mvn package
 
-See the Maven 2 documentation for other build features.
+See the Maven documentation for other build features.
 
 The latest source code for this component is available in the
 Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) source repository of