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