diff --git a/ipojo/annotations/pom.xml b/ipojo/annotations/pom.xml
index 3413690..8290cc7 100644
--- a/ipojo/annotations/pom.xml
+++ b/ipojo/annotations/pom.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@
 							iPOJO Annotations
 						</Bundle-Description>
 						<Export-Package>
-							org.apache.felix.ipojo.annotations
+							org.apache.felix.ipojo.annotations,
+							org.apache.felix.ipojo.handler.temporal
 						</Export-Package>
 						<Include-Resource>
 							META-INF/LICENCE=LICENSE,
diff --git a/ipojo/annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/ipojo/handler/temporal/Requires.java b/ipojo/annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/ipojo/handler/temporal/Requires.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cdf39a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ipojo/annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/ipojo/handler/temporal/Requires.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/* 
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.felix.ipojo.handler.temporal;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * Temporal dependency annotation.
+ * Allows specifying a temporal dependency.
+ * Be aware that despite is it provided in the annotations jar, 
+ * it refers to an external handler.
+ * @author <a href="mailto:dev@felix.apache.org">Felix Project Team</a>
+ */
+@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
+public @interface Requires {
+    
+    /**
+     * Set the LDAP filter of the dependency.
+     * Default : no filter
+     */
+    String filter() default "";
+   
+    /**
+     * Timeout of the dependency.
+     * Default : true
+     */
+    long timeout() default 3000;
+    
+    /**
+     * Set the on timeout action.
+     * Supports null, nullable, empty-array, and default-implementation.
+     * In this latter case, you must specify the qualified class name
+     * of the default-implementation (instead of default-implementation).
+     * Default: no action (i.e throw a runtime exception)
+     */
+    String onTimeout() default "";
+
+}