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