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The OSGi framework supports deploying and managing bundles, which are reusable units of code and resources. Although the OSGi specification does not explicitly require bundles to be packages packaged as JAR file, it does require that bundles look like JAR files (i.e., they have a manifest and named byte entries). For the most part, this abstraction as worked well and has allowed framework implementations to support other archive formats and even install-by-reference semantics (to some degree). However, there are limitations limitations as to what can be achieved by this approach.

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