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# Jakarta JSON Processing

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Jakarta JSON Processing provides portable APIs to parse, generate, transform, and query JSON documents.
This project contains Jakarta JSON Processing specification, API and TCK.

## Build

Prerequisites:
* JDK 17+
* Maven 3.9.0+

Use the following command:
```bash
mvn -U -C clean install
```

## License

* Most of the Jakarta JSON Processing project source code is licensed
under the [Eclipse Public License (EPL) v2.0](https://projects.eclipse.org/license/epl-2.0)
and [GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 with Classpath Exception](https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html);
see the license information at the top of each source file.
* The binary jar files published to the Maven repository are licensed
under the same licenses as the corresponding source code;
see the file `META-INF/LICENSE.txt` in each jar file.

You’ll find the text of the licenses in the workspace in various `LICENSE.txt` or `LICENSE.md` files.
Don’t let the presence of these license files in the workspace confuse you into thinking
that they apply to all files in the workspace.

You should always read the license file included with every download, and read
the license text included in every source file.

## Links

- [Jakarta JSON Processing @ Eclipse](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.jsonp)

## 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).