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/*
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* Copyright 2003-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
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*
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* This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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* under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
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* published by the Free Software Foundation. Sun designates this
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* particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
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* by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
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*
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* This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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* version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
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* accompanied this code).
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
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* 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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* Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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*
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* Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
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* CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
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* have any questions.
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*/
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package java.lang.annotation;
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/**
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* Indicates that an annotation type is automatically inherited. If
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* an Inherited meta-annotation is present on an annotation type
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* declaration, and the user queries the annotation type on a class
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* declaration, and the class declaration has no annotation for this type,
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* then the class's superclass will automatically be queried for the
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* annotation type. This process will be repeated until an annotation for this
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* type is found, or the top of the class hierarchy (Object)
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* is reached. If no superclass has an annotation for this type, then
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* the query will indicate that the class in question has no such annotation.
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*
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* <p>Note that this meta-annotation type has no effect if the annotated
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* type is used to annotate anything other than a class. Note also
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* that this meta-annotation only causes annotations to be inherited
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* from superclasses; annotations on implemented interfaces have no
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* effect.
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*
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* @author Joshua Bloch
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* @since 1.5
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*/
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@Documented
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@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
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@Target(ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE)
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public @interface Inherited {
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}
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