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package javax.xml.bind.annotation;

import java.lang.annotation.Retention;

import java.lang.annotation.Target;

import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.FIELD;

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.PARAMETER;

/**

 * Used to map a property to a list simple type.

 *

 * <p><b>Usage</b> </p>

 * <p>

 * The <tt>@XmlList</tt> annotation can be used with the

 * following program elements:

 * <ul>

 *   <li> JavaBean property </li>

 *   <li> field </li>

 * </ul>

 *

 * <p>

 * When a collection property is annotated just with @XmlElement,

 * each item in the collection will be wrapped by an element.

 * For example,

 *

 * <pre>

 * @XmlRootElement

 * class Foo {

 *     @XmlElement

 *     List<String> data;

 * }

 * </pre>

 *

 * would produce XML like this:

 *

 *

 * @XmlList annotation, on the other hand, allows multiple values to be

 * represented as whitespace-separated tokens in a single element. For example,

 *

 * <pre>

 * @XmlRootElement

 * class Foo {

 *     @XmlElement

 *     @XmlList

 *     List<String> data;

 * }

 * </pre>

 *

 * the above code will produce XML like this:

 *

 *

 * <p>This annotation can be used with the following annotations:

 *        {@link XmlElement},

 *        {@link XmlAttribute},

 *        {@link XmlValue},

 *        {@link XmlIDREF}.

 *  <ul>

 *    <li> The use of <tt>@XmlList</tt> with {@link XmlValue} while

 *         allowed, is redundant since  {@link XmlList} maps a

 *         collection type to a simple schema type that derives by

 *         list just as {@link XmlValue} would. </li>

 *

 *    <li> The use of <tt>@XmlList</tt> with {@link XmlAttribute} while

 *         allowed, is redundant since  {@link XmlList} maps a

 *         collection type to a simple schema type that derives by

 *         list just as {@link XmlAttribute} would. </li>

 *  </ul>

 *

 * @author <ul><li>Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Sun Microsystems, Inc.</li><li>Sekhar Vajjhala, Sun Microsystems, Inc.</li></ul>

 * @since 1.6, JAXB 2.0

 */

@Retention(RUNTIME) @Target({FIELD,METHOD,PARAMETER})

public @interface XmlList {

}