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+/* *******************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Contributors.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available
+ * under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution and is available at
+ * http://eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ * ******************************************************************/
+package org.aspectj.lang.annotation;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * Can be specified on an aspect to ensure that particular types must be accessible before
+ * the aspect will be 'activated'. The array value should be a list of fully qualified
+ * type names as strings, for example "com.foo.Bar". Useful in an aspect library that
+ * includes a number of aspects, only a few of which should ever be active depending
+ * upon what is on the classpath.
+ *
+ * @author Andy Clement
+ * @since 1.8.3
+ */
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
+public @interface RequiredTypes {
+ String[] value();
+}