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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Overview Documentation for COMMONS-LOGGING (OPTIONAL)</title>
+</head>
+<body bgcolor="white">
+<p>Contains optional additions to JCL.</p>
+
+<p>Contained are classes which are not considered appropriate
+to distribute as part of JCL main distribution. 
+Some classes are JVM dependent. 
+Others are targetted at uncommon use cases.
+Utility code is also appropriate.
+</p>
+</body>
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