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IN NO EVENT SHALL COPYRIGHT HOLDER 75 BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 76 CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 77 SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR 78 BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, 79 WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR 80 OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF 81 ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 82*/ 83 84/** 85 * <p> 86 * Contains interfaces and classes needed by language runtimes to implement 87 * their own language-specific object models and type conversions. The main 88 * entry point is the 89 * {@link jdk.dynalink.linker.GuardingDynamicLinker} interface. It needs to be 90 * implemented in order to provide linking for the runtime's own object model. 91 * A language runtime can have more than one guarding dynamic linker 92 * implementation. When a runtime is configuring Dynalink for itself, it will 93 * normally set these guarding linkers as the prioritized linkers in its 94 * {@link jdk.dynalink.DynamicLinkerFactory} (and maybe some of them as fallback 95 * linkers, for e.g. handling "method not found" and similar errors in a 96 * language-specific manner if no other linker managed to handle the operation.) 97 * </p><p> 98 * A language runtime that wishes to make at least some of its linkers available 99 * to other language runtimes for interoperability will need to declare the 100 * class names of those linkers in 101 * {@code /META-INF/services/jdk.dynalink.linker.GuardingDynamicLinker} file in 102 * its distribution (typically, JAR file). 103 * </p><p> 104 * Most language runtimes will be able to implement their own linking logic by 105 * implementing {@link jdk.dynalink.linker.TypeBasedGuardingDynamicLinker} 106 * instead of {@link jdk.dynalink.linker.GuardingDynamicLinker}; it allows for 107 * faster type-based linking dispatch. 108 * </p><p> 109 * Language runtimes that allow type conversions other than those provided by 110 * Java will need to have their guarding dynamic linker (or linkers) also 111 * implement the {@link jdk.dynalink.linker.GuardingTypeConverterFactory} 112 * interface to provide the logic for these conversions. 113 * </p> 114 * @since 9 115 */ 116package jdk.dynalink.linker; 117