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 Apache Sling JCR Resource Resolver
 
 This bundle provides the JCR based Resource Resolver.
-
-Getting Started
-===============
-
-This component uses a Maven 3 (http://maven.apache.org/) build
-environment. It requires a Java 6 JDK (or higher) and Maven (http://maven.apache.org/)
-3.0.3 or later. We recommend to use the latest Maven version.
-
-If you have Maven 3 installed, you can compile and
-package the jar using the following command:
-
-    mvn package
-
-See the Maven 3 documentation for other build features.
-
-The latest source code for this component is available in the
-Subversion (http://subversion.apache.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/jcr/resource
-
-See the Subversion documentation for other source control features.
-