README.md

# Jakarta annotations

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**Jakarta Annotations** defines a collection of annotations representing common
semantic concepts that enable a declarative style of programming that applies
across a variety of Java technologies.

Jakarta Annotations uses a [Java Platform Module System](http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/)
module name `jakarta.annotation`.

## Contributing

We use [contribution policy](CONTRIBUTING.md), which means we can only accept contributions under
the terms of [Eclipse Contributor Agreement](http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ECA.php).