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From: phil3k <philip.limbeck@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:40:19 +0100
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+# FlinkEsper
+
+An attempt to use Esper stream processing engine within Apache Flink as alternative to FlinkCEP.
+
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+ * Java 8
+ * Maven
+ * git
+ 
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/phil3k3/flink-esper.git
+flink-esper
+mvn clean package
+```
+
+The flink-esper library is now availble as JAR with dependencies in the flink-esper/target subdirectory.
+
+## Contributing
+
+Anybody who has sincere interest into making a contribution of any kind is invited to do so.
+
+## Authors
+
+* **Philip L**
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under the Apache License - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details
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