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+name: "jcommander"
+description: "JCommander is a very small Java framework that makes it trivial to parse command line parameters."
+third_party {
+  url {
+    type: HOMEPAGE
+    value: "http://jcommander.org/"
+  }
+  url {
+    type: GIT
+    value: "https://github.com/cbeust/jcommander.git"
+  }
+  version: "14fbe2bc5a2c402b456ed68578a5d5dc2c343fa2"
+  last_upgrade_date {
+    year: 2016
+    month: 3
+    day: 16
+  }
+}