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+/*
+ * Copyright 1997-2002 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.text;
+
+/**
+* An Annotation object is used as a wrapper for a text attribute value if
+* the attribute has annotation characteristics. These characteristics are:
+* <ul>
+* <li>The text range that the attribute is applied to is critical to the
+* semantics of the range. That means, the attribute cannot be applied to subranges
+* of the text range that it applies to, and, if two adjacent text ranges have
+* the same value for this attribute, the attribute still cannot be applied to
+* the combined range as a whole with this value.
+* <li>The attribute or its value usually do no longer apply if the underlying text is
+* changed.
+* </ul>
+*
+* An example is grammatical information attached to a sentence:
+* For the previous sentence, you can say that "an example"
+* is the subject, but you cannot say the same about "an", "example", or "exam".
+* When the text is changed, the grammatical information typically becomes invalid.
+* Another example is Japanese reading information (yomi).
+*
+* <p>
+* Wrapping the attribute value into an Annotation object guarantees that
+* adjacent text runs don't get merged even if the attribute values are equal,
+* and indicates to text containers that the attribute should be discarded if
+* the underlying text is modified.
+*
+* @see AttributedCharacterIterator
+* @since 1.2
+*/
+
+public class Annotation {
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs an annotation record with the given value, which
+     * may be null.
+     * @param value The value of the attribute
+     */
+    public Annotation(Object value) {
+        this.value = value;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the value of the attribute, which may be null.
+     */
+    public Object getValue() {
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the String representation of this Annotation.
+     */
+    public String toString() {
+        return getClass().getName() + "[value=" + value + "]";
+    }
+
+    private Object value;
+
+};