javax.lang.model (Java SE 11 & JDK 11 ) (original) (raw)

Classes and hierarchies of packages used to model 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 static language constructs, like the element representing java.util.Set, and the family oftypes 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.

Since:

1.6

• Interface Summary

  Interface	Description
  AnnotatedConstruct	Represents a construct that can be annotated.

• Enum Summary

  Enum	Description
  SourceVersion	Source versions of the Java™ programming language.

• Exception Summary

  Exception	Description
  UnknownEntityException	Superclass of exceptions which indicate that an unknown kind of entity was encountered.

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