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/**

 * Provides classes and interface for RMI distributed

 * garbage-collection (DGC).  When the RMI server returns an object to

 * its client (caller of the remote method), it tracks the remote

 * object's usage in the client. When there are no more references to the

 * remote object on the client, or if the reference's ``lease'' expires and

 * not renewed, the server garbage-collects the remote object.

 *

 *

 * @since 1.1

 */

package java.rmi.dgc;