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+package com.github.choonchernlim.springbootmail;
+
+/**
+ * This is a temporary hack to allow `maven-javadoc-plugin` to generate a `*-javadoc.jar` artifact
+ * to satisfy OSSRH rule in order to successfully perform a `mvn deploy`.
+ * <p>
+ * The reason is because the source code are all written in Groovy, hence `maven-javadoc-plugin` will not
+ * generate `*-javadoc.jar` because no Java files exist.
+ */
+@SuppressWarnings("unused")
+public final class JavaDocHack {
+}