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+The Maven team is pleased to announce the Cactus plugin 2.0 release!
+
+http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/cactus
+
+The Maven Cactus plugin is a plugin for Cactus
+(http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus) that allows to automatically start 
+containers, run Cactus tests and stop the containers.
+
+Changes in this version:
+
+o Complete rework of the plugin to use the Cactus/Ant Integration
+  module from the Cactus project. Now using Cactus 1.5dev for J2EE
+  1.3, built from CVS on 7th of April 2003. Thus the Plugin feature
+  are now those of the Cactus/Ant Integration module.
+
+Note that this plugin has been tested with Maven beta 9. Using it with
+another version of Maven is at your own risks! :-)
+
+You can download the Cactus Maven plugin here:
+http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/jars/maven-cactus-plugin-2.0.jar
+
+Have fun!
+-Vincent
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