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 title: Generate external dependencies for a Java project
 ---
 
+> NOTE: `generate_workspace` is no longer maintained by the Bazel team. The
+GitHub project has been archived. Instead, please use [`rules_jvm_external`](
+https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external] to fetch and resolve
+Maven artifacts transitively.
+
 # Generate external dependencies from Maven projects
 
 The tool `generate_workspace` helps automate the process of writing