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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ A curated list of awesome Java frameworks, libraries and software.
 ## Contents
 
 - [Projects](#projects)
-  - [Architecture](#architecture)  
+  - [Architecture](#architecture)
   - [Bean Mapping](#bean-mapping)
   - [Build](#build)
   - [Bytecode Manipulation](#bytecode-manipulation)
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ _For working with platform-specific native libraries._
 - [JavaCPP](https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp) - Provides efficient and easy access to native C++.
 - [JNA](https://github.com/java-native-access/jna) - Work with native libraries without writing JNI. Also provides interfaces to common system libraries.
 - [JNR](https://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi) - Work with native libraries without writing JNI. Also provides interfaces to common system libraries. Same goals as JNA, but faster, and serves as the basis for the upcoming [Project Panama](http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama).
-- [native-lib-loader](https://github.com/scijava/native-lib-loader) - Native library loader for extracting and loading native libraries from Java. 
+- [native-lib-loader](https://github.com/scijava/native-lib-loader) - Native library loader for extracting and loading native libraries from Java.
 
 ### Natural Language Processing
 
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ _APIs that handle the persistence of objects._
 - [EclipseLink](https://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/) - Supports a number of persistence standards: JPA, JAXB, JCA and SDO.
 - [Hibernate](http://hibernate.org/orm/) - Robust and widely used, with an active community. (LGPL-2.1-only)
 - [MyBatis](https://github.com/mybatis/mybatis-3) - Couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements.
-- [MyBatis-Plus](https://github.com/baomidou/mybatis-plus) - An powerful enhanced toolkit of MyBatis for simplify development.
+- [MyBatis-Plus](https://github.com/baomidou/mybatis-plus) - A powerful enhanced toolkit of MyBatis for simplifying development.
 - [ObjectiveSql](https://github.com/braisdom/ObjectiveSql) - ActiveRecord ORM for rapid development and convention over configuration.
 - [Permazen](https://github.com/permazen/permazen) - Language-natural persistence layer.
 - [SimpleFlatMapper](https://github.com/arnaudroger/SimpleFlatMapper) - Simple database and CSV mapper.