Initial contribution

Signed-off-by: Yamini K B <[email protected]>

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to Eclipse Project for Common Annotations
+
+Thanks for your interest in this project.
+
+## Project description
+
+Annotations for common semantic concepts in the J2SE and J2EE platforms that
+apply across a variety of individual technologies.
+
+ * https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.ca
+
+## Developer resources
+
+Information regarding source code management, builds, coding standards, and
+more.
+
+ * https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.ca/developer
+
+The project maintains the following source code repositories
+
+ * https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/common-annotations-api
+
+## Eclipse Contributor Agreement
+
+Before your contribution can be accepted by the project team contributors must
+electronically sign the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA).
+
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ECA.php
+
+Commits that are provided by non-committers must have a Signed-off-by field in
+the footer indicating that the author is aware of the terms by which the
+contribution has been provided to the project. The non-committer must
+additionally have an Eclipse Foundation account and must have a signed Eclipse
+Contributor Agreement (ECA) on file.
+
+For more information, please see the Eclipse Committer Handbook:
+https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#resources-commit
+
+## Contact
+
+Contact the project developers via the project's "dev" list.
+
+ * 
+

NOTICE.md

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+# Notices for Eclipse Project for Common Annotations
+
+This content is produced and maintained by the Eclipse Project for Common
+Annotations project.
+
+ * Project home: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.ca
+
+## Trademarks
+
+Eclipse Project for Common Annotations is a trademark of the Eclipse Foundation.
+
+## Declared Project Licenses
+
+This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms
+of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0. This Source Code may also be made
+available under the following Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such
+availability set forth in the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU
+General Public License, version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception which is
+available at https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+
+## Source Code
+
+The project maintains the following source code repositories:
+
+ * https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/common-annotations-api
+
+## Third-party Content
+
+## Cryptography
+
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README.md

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+# Java(TM) Common Annotations
+
+The intention of Java(TM) Common Annotations is to develop annotations for common semantic 
+concepts in the Java SE and Java EE platforms that apply across a variety of individual 
+technologies. It was envisioned that various JSRs would use annotations to enable a declarative
+style of programming. It would be especially valuable to have consistency within the Java EE 
+component JSRs, but it is also valuable to allow consistency between Java EE and Java SE.
+
+This standalone release of Java(TM) Common Annotations uses a
+[Java Platform Module System](http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/)
+"automatic" module name of `java.annotation`, to match the module name
+used in JDK 9.  A future version will include full module metadata.