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<preface>
  <title>Introduction</title>
  <para>
       Solder is a library of Generally Useful Stuff (TM), particularly if you are
      developing an application based on CDI (JSR-299 Java Contexts and Dependency Injection),
      or a CDI based library or framework.
   </para>
  <para>
      This guide is split into three parts. <xref linkend="part1"/> details extensions and 
      utilities which are likely to be of use to any developer using CDI; 
      <xref linkend="part2"/> describes utilities which are likely to be of
      use to developers writing libraries and frameworks that work with CDI; <xref linkend="part3"/> discusses
      extensions which can be used to implement configuration for a framework
   </para>
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