return out.toString();
    }

    /**
     * <p>Escapes the characters in a <code>String</code> using Java String rules.</p>
     *
     * <p>Deals correctly with quotes and control-chars (tab, backslash, cr, ff, etc.) </p>
     *
     * <p>So a tab becomes the characters <code>'\\'</code> and
     * <code>'t'</code>.</p>
     *
     * <p>The only difference between Java strings and JavaScript strings

@endlocal & set MAVEN_OPTS=%MAVEN_OPTS% %JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS%

:endReadJvmConfig

@REM do not let MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR end with a single backslash which would escape the double quote. This happens when .mvn at drive root.
if "_%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR:~-1%"=="_\" set "MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR=%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%\"