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-# jargon-irods-ext
-Jargon extensions based on the metalnx irods-ext database schema
+
+Jargon Extensions API for irods-ext
+
+
+# Project: Jargon Extensions API - IRODS-EXT
+### Date:
+### Release Version: 4.2.1.0-SNAPSHOT
+### git tag: 
+
+## News
+
+
+Extended support in Jargon for advanced iRODS mid-tier capabilities using the IRODS-EXT database
+
+## Requirements
+
+*Jargon depends on Java 1.8+
+*Jargon is built using Apache Maven2, see POM for dependencies
+*Jargon supports iRODS 3.0 through iRODS 3.3.1 community, as well as iRODS 4.2.2 consortium
+
+## Libraries
+
+Jargon-core uses Maven for dependency management.  See the pom.xml file for references to various dependencies.
+
+Note that the following bug and feature requests are logged in GitHub with related commit information [[https://github.com/DICE-UNC/jargon/issues]]
+
+## Bug Fixes
+
+## Features
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+	<groupId>org.irods.jargon</groupId>
+	<artifactId>jargon-irods-ext</artifactId>
+	<parent>
+		<groupId>org.irods</groupId>
+		<artifactId>jargon-pom</artifactId>
+		<version>4.2.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	</parent>
+	<packaging>pom</packaging>
+	<name>jargon-extensions</name>
+	<description>Jargon Extensions using the irods-ext database used in metalnx</description>
+	<developers>
+		<developer>
+			<id>mconway</id>
+			<name>Mike Conway</name>
+			<email>michael.c.conway@gmail.com</email>
+			<roles>
+				<role>developer</role>
+			</roles>
+		</developer>
+	</developers>
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>log4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
+			<artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>junit</groupId>
+			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.irods.jargon</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jargon-core</artifactId>
+			<version>${project.version}</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.irods.jargon</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jargon-extensions-if</artifactId>
+			<version>${project.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+	<build>
+		<plugins>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>2.5</version>
+				<configuration>
+					<includes>
+						<include>**/AllTests.java</include>
+					</includes>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>2.1</version>
+				<configuration>
+					<fork>true</fork>
+					<compilerVersion>${java.version}</compilerVersion>
+					<source>${java.version}</source>
+					<target>${java.version}</target>
+					<compilerArgument>-Xlint:-unchecked</compilerArgument>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>2.0</version>
+				<dependencies>
+					<dependency>
+						<groupId>com.google.code.maven-scm-provider-svnjava</groupId>
+						<artifactId>maven-scm-provider-svnjava</artifactId>
+						<version>1.10</version>
+					</dependency>
+				</dependencies>
+				<configuration>
+					<providerImplementations>
+						<svn>javasvn</svn>
+					</providerImplementations>
+					<resume>false</resume>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
+		</plugins>
+	</build>
+	<profiles>
+		<profile>
+			<id>production</id>
+			<build>
+				<plugins>
+					<plugin>
+						<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+						<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+						<configuration>
+							<debug>false</debug>
+							<optimize>true</optimize>
+						</configuration>
+					</plugin>
+				</plugins>
+			</build>
+		</profile>
+	</profiles>
+</project>
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+#Generated by Maven
+#Thu Dec 21 09:42:11 EST 2017
+version=4.2.1.0-SNAPSHOT
+groupId=org.irods.jargon
+artifactId=jargon-irods-ext