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This command line utility is the Swiss army knife of OSGi. It provides you with a breadth of tools to understand and manage OSGi based systems. This project basically uses bndlib.

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/*
 * Copyright (c) OSGi Alliance (2020). All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Export 2.0 (the "License");
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package aQute.bnd.bundle.annotations;

import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 * Mark types as referenced.
 * 
 * A reference can cause the package of a specified type to be imported if the
 * bundle does not contain the package.
 * 

 * This annotation is not retained at runtime. It is for use by tools to
 * generate bundle manifests.
 *
 * @author $Id: 709e8ab000b31b26372dc5f8bb484de818583a47 $
 */
@Documented
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS)
@Target({
	ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.PACKAGE
})
public @interface Referenced {
	/**
	 * A list of referenced classes.
	 * 
	 * Specifying a class in this annotation must be treated by tools as if the
	 * annotated type has a code reference to the class which may result in an
	 * import of the package of the class if the bundle does not contain that
	 * package.
	 */
	Class[] value();
}