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+# http://sigil.codecauldron.org
+
+This example is based on the Ivy Tutorial project dependencies example:
+http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/tutorial/dependence.html
+
+Dependencies are resolved using an OBR index for the Spring repository,
+hosted at sigil.codecauldron.org.
+
+1. set ivy.jar location in settings/build.properties
+
+2. build dependee
+$ cd dependee
+$ ant jar
+$ ant publish
+
+3. build depender
+$ cd ../depender
+$ ant
+