| Documented | Defines a meta-annotation for indicating that an annotation is documented and considered part of the public API. |
| Inherited | Defines a meta-annotation for indicating that an annotation is automatically inherited. |
| Retention | Defines a meta-annotation for determining the scope of retention for an annotation. |
| Target |
Defines a meta-annotation for determining what ElementTypes an
annotation can be applied to.
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| Annotation | Defines the interface implemented by all annotations. |
| ElementType | Defines an enumeration for Java program elements. |
| RetentionPolicy | Defines an enumeration for annotation retention policies. |
| AnnotationTypeMismatchException | Indicates that an annotation type has changed since it was compiled or serialized. |
| IncompleteAnnotationException | Indicates that an element of an annotation type was accessed that was added after the type was compiled or serialized. |
| AnnotationFormatError | Indicates that an annotation in the binary representation of a class is syntactically incorrect and the annotation parser is unable to process it. |
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