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25
26/**
27 * Classes and hierarchies of packages used to model the Java
28 * programming language.
29 *
30 * The members of this package and its subpackages are for use in
31 * language modeling and language processing tasks and APIs including,
32 * but not limited to, the {@linkplain javax.annotation.processing
33 * annotation processing} framework.
34 *
35 * <p> This language model follows a <i>mirror</i>-based design; see
36 *
37 * <blockquote>
38 * Gilad Bracha and David Ungar. <i>Mirrors: Design Principles for
39 * Meta-level Facilities of Object-Oriented Programming Languages</i>.
40 * In Proc. of the ACM Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems,
41 * Languages and Applications, October 2004.
42 * </blockquote>
43 *
44 * In particular, the model makes a distinction between static
45 * language constructs, like the {@linkplain javax.lang.model.element
46 * element} representing {@code java.util.Set}, and the family of
47 * {@linkplain javax.lang.model.type types} that may be associated
48 * with an element, like the raw type {@code java.util.Set}, {@code
49 * java.util.Set<String>}, and {@code java.util.Set<T>}.
50 *
51 * <p> Unless otherwise specified, methods in this package will throw
52 * a {@code NullPointerException} if given a {@code null} argument.
53 *
54 * @author Joseph D. Darcy
55 * @author Scott Seligman
56 * @author Peter von der Ah&eacute;
57 * @since 1.6
58 */
59
60package javax.lang.model;
61