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    25 

    26 /**

    27  * Provides classes and interface for RMI distributed

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

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

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

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

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

    33  *

    34  *

    35  * @since 1.1

    36  */

    37 package java.rmi.dgc;