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                    Usage
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Obtaining Commons Pipeline

  If you are using Maven (version 2.0 and above) the easiest way to 
incorporate Commons Pipeline into your project is to add the following 
entries in the appropriate sections of your project's <<<pom.xml>>> file: 

+---+
  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>apache.snapshots</id>
      <name>Snapshot Repository</name>
      <url>http://cvs.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
      <artifactId>commons-pipeline</artifactId>
      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
+---+

  If you are not using Maven for your project, nightly builds are available
from {{http://people.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/nightly/commons-pipeline/}}.

Usage

  Ordinarily, a processing pipeline will be embedded in an application; however,
it is also possible to use a simple XML file to configure a pipeline instance
that can be run directly from the command line with the syntax:

---
java org.apache.commons.pipeline.config.DigesterPipelineFactory my_pipeline_conf.xml 
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  See {{{config_digester.html}Configuration Using Digester}} for how to set up a 
pipeline configuration file.