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The <Export-Package> and <Private-Package> instructions tell the plugin about the contents of the bundle JAR file. The <Export-Package> instruction tells the plugin which of the available packages to include copy into the bundle and to export, while the <Private-Package> instruction indicates which of the available packages to include copy into the bundle but not export. If the two sets overlap, as they do in the case, then the export takes precedence. Since we did not specify any values for any other bundle manifest headers, they will assume default values which are described below. One specific behavior to highlight is that the plugin generates the Import-Package bundle manifest header based on the specified contents of the bundle, which means that you generally do not ever need to specify it. That's it.

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