Declare a capability namespace that indicates a bundle contains annotations

[laeubi]

PDE / Tycho have a quite convenient feature that makes OSGi annotations automatically available to the user, that way no special configuration is required to use them.

This is currently archived by maintaining a fixed set of known items what of course not works for custom ones or needs to be extend once there are new items specified.

Instead of this, it would be good to have a "annotation capability" a bundle can define that includes attributes / directives of:

• the package names that contain annotations
• the retention of these annotations (e.g. class or runtime)

based on this an IDE/Tool can scan the target/repositories/... for items it wants to make available automatically to the user.

To make this work across tools / IDEs there should be a standard namespace defined to allow wider adoption (and maybe even predefined annotations).

[stbischof]

Sorry @laeubi, I did not get it. Could you help me with a user story.

based on this an IDE/Tool can scan the target/repositories/... for items it wants to make available automatically to the user.

[stbischof]

your branch https://github.com/osgi/osgi/tree/requirements/696