diff --git a/dev-java/jsonrpc2-base/Manifest b/dev-java/jsonrpc2-base/Manifest
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+DIST jsonrpc2-base-1.38.2.tar.bz2 31673 BLAKE2B e7ee637f4794f9c0c8e80824200976b8bdb762d14c0d0716bf60e840cc166c8be5794e186294072eb14543f04d37b342f74308b30f9477f066b9785ea94c38b1 SHA512 8084730e36e30d950a57ed6ae6cbe8bb4e5719e428881e394450a5811faa97b33d63991c5f12cb8d17896ead507f96917568881e9923676a942ac229ef146934
diff --git a/dev-java/jsonrpc2-base/jsonrpc2-base-1.38.2.ebuild b/dev-java/jsonrpc2-base/jsonrpc2-base-1.38.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source test"
+MAVEN_ID="com.thetransactioncompany:jsonrpc2-base:1.38.2"
+JAVA_TESTING_FRAMEWORKS="junit-4"
+
+inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple
+
+DESCRIPTION="Represent, parse and serialise JSON-RPC 2.0 messages"
+HOMEPAGE="https://software.dzhuvinov.com/json-rpc-2.0-base.html"
+SRC_URI="https://bitbucket.org/thetransactioncompany/json-rpc-2.0-base/get/${PV}.tar.bz2 -> ${P}.tar.bz2"
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="1"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+CP_DEPEND="dev-java/json-smart:1"
+DEPEND="
+	${CP_DEPEND}
+	>=virtual/jdk-1.8:*
+"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	${CP_DEPEND}
+	>=virtual/jre-1.8:*
+"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/thetransactioncompany-json-rpc-2.0-base-75e66af02953"
+
+JAVA_SRC_DIR="src/main/java"
+JAVA_TEST_SRC_DIR="src/test/java"
+JAVA_TEST_GENTOO_CLASSPATH="junit-4"
+JAVA_TEST_EXCLUDES=( "com.thetransactioncompany.jsonrpc2.util.TestEnumDay" )
diff --git a/dev-java/jsonrpc2-base/metadata.xml b/dev-java/jsonrpc2-base/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>java@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Java</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="bitbucket">thetransactioncompany/json-rpc-2.0-base</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>