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>&#13;	Libraries are not separated between developers (-dev) and users
	versions, since it is meaningless in Java.
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>&#13;	Java libraries packages <SPAN
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	jar file. In some cases that is not the same as the package version.
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	that developers should know what to add to their wrappers.
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>&#13;	This applies only to libraries, <SPAN
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