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+# Infer annotations
+
+This project provides extra annotations for Java checkers, such as starvation or nullsafe.
+
+## How to build JARs (suitable for release)
+
+Make sure you have maven installed. `infer-annotaions` is a regular
+maven project, so regular maven commands apply. The following commands might be of interest:
+
+1. Build artifact jar (the one with class files): `mvn package`.
+2. Build sources jar: `mvn source:jar`
+3. Clean: mvn clean
+
+The resulting artifacts will be under `target/` folder.