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+# Eclipse Capella Studio
+
+[![Master build status](https://img.shields.io/jenkins/build?jobUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fci.eclipse.org%2Fcapella%2Fview%2FCapella%2520Studio%2Fjob%2FCapella-Studio%2Fjob%2Fmaster%2F)](https://ci.eclipse.org/capella/view/Capella%20Studio/job/Capella-Studio/job/master/)
+[![Quality Gate Status](https://sonarcloud.io/api/project_badges/measure?project=eclipse_capella-studio&metric=alert_status)](https://sonarcloud.io/dashboard?id=eclipse_capella-studio)
+![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/eclipse/capella-studio)
+
+Capella Studio provides a full-integrated development environment which aims at facilitating the development of extensions for Capella MBSE.
+
+It provides developers with a platform containing both:
+- Kitalpha and Eclipse modeling frameworks and tools
+- Capella models and tools
+
+For more details see [the project page](http://www.eclipse.org/Capella) and [the main wiki page](https://wiki.eclipse.org/Capella/Studio).
+
+# Building
+
+The build uses [Tycho](http://www.eclipse.org/tycho/). To build the product, issue
+```
+mvn clean verify -P full -P product
+```
+from the top-level directory.
+
+The resulting product can be found in `releng/plugins/org.polarsys.capella.studio.releng.product/target/products/`.