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duke@1: /**
duke@1:  * Classes and hierarchies of packages used to model the Java
duke@1:  * programming language.
duke@1:  *
duke@1:  * The members of this package and its subpackages are for use in
duke@1:  * language modeling and language processing tasks and APIs including,
duke@1:  * but not limited to, the {@linkplain javax.annotation.processing
duke@1:  * annotation processing} framework.
duke@1:  *
duke@1:  * <p> This language model follows a <i>mirror</i>-based design; see
duke@1:  *
duke@1:  * <blockquote>
duke@1:  * Gilad Bracha and David Ungar. <i>Mirrors: Design Principles for
duke@1:  * Meta-level Facilities of Object-Oriented Programming Languages</i>.
duke@1:  * In Proc. of the ACM Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems,
duke@1:  * Languages and Applications, October 2004.
duke@1:  * </blockquote>
duke@1:  *
duke@1:  * In particular, the model makes a distinction between static
duke@1:  * language constructs, like the {@linkplain javax.lang.model.element
duke@1:  * element} representing {@code java.util.Set}, and the family of
duke@1:  * {@linkplain javax.lang.model.type types} that may be associated
duke@1:  * with an element, like the raw type {@code java.util.Set}, {@code
duke@1:  * java.util.Set<String>}, and {@code java.util.Set<T>}.
duke@1:  *
duke@1:  * <p> Unless otherwise specified, methods in this package will throw
duke@1:  * a {@code NullPointerException} if given a {@code null} argument.
duke@1:  *
duke@1:  * @author Joseph D. Darcy
duke@1:  * @author Scott Seligman
duke@1:  * @author Peter von der Ah&eacute;
duke@1:  * @since 1.6
duke@1:  */
duke@1: 
duke@1: package javax.lang.model;