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+COMPILE_DEPS = CORE_DEPS + KRYO + CLI + [
+    "//core/store/serializers:onos-core-serializers",
+    "//core/store/primitives:onos-core-primitives",
+]
+
+osgi_jar_with_tests(
+    deps = COMPILE_DEPS,
+)
+
+onos_app(
+    category = "Traffic Engineering",
+    description = "Provisions traffic between end-stations using hop-by-hop flow programming by " +
+        "intercepting packets for which there are currently no matching flow objectives on the " +
+        "data plane. The paths paved in this manner are short-lived, i.e. they expire a few " +
+        "seconds after the flow on whose behalf they were programmed stops.\n\n" +
+        "The application relies on the ONOS path service to compute the shortest paths. " +
+        "In the event of negative topology events (link loss, device disconnect, etc.), " +
+        "the application will proactively invalidate any paths that it had programmed to lead " +
+        "through the resources that are no longer available.",
+    title = "Reactive Forwarding",
+    url = "http://onosproject.org",
+)