TheMetadata Facility for Java is a specification forJava that defines anAPI forannotatingfields,methods, andclasses as having particular attributes that indicate they should be processed in specific ways bydevelopment tools, deployment tools, orrun-time libraries.
The specification was developed under theJava Community Process as JSR 175, and was released as a part ofJ2SE 5.0 (Tiger).
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