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| |
| /** |
| * Classes and hierarchies of packages used to model the Java |
| * programming language. |
| * |
| * The members of this package and its subpackages are for use in |
| * language modeling and language processing tasks and APIs including, |
| * but not limited to, the {@linkplain javax.annotation.processing |
| * annotation processing} framework. |
| * |
| * <p> This language model follows a <i>mirror</i>-based design; see |
| * |
| * <blockquote> |
| * Gilad Bracha and David Ungar. <i>Mirrors: Design Principles for |
| * Meta-level Facilities of Object-Oriented Programming Languages</i>. |
| * In Proc. of the ACM Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, |
| * Languages and Applications, October 2004. |
| * </blockquote> |
| * |
| * In particular, the model makes a distinction between static |
| * language constructs, like the {@linkplain javax.lang.model.element |
| * element} representing {@code java.util.Set}, and the family of |
| * {@linkplain javax.lang.model.type types} that may be associated |
| * with an element, like the raw type {@code java.util.Set}, {@code |
| * java.util.Set<String>}, and {@code java.util.Set<T>}. |
| * |
| * <p> Unless otherwise specified, methods in this package will throw |
| * a {@code NullPointerException} if given a {@code null} argument. |
| * |
| * @author Joseph D. Darcy |
| * @author Scott Seligman |
| * @author Peter von der Ahé |
| * @since 1.6 |
| */ |
| |
| package javax.lang.model; |
