Metadata facility for Java

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The Metadata Facility for Java is a specification for

run-time libraries
.

The specification was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 175, and was released as a part of J2SE 5.0 (Tiger).

  • JSR 175 A Metadata Facility for the Java Programming Language
  • JSR 250
    Java EE
    annotations)
  • JSR 269 Pluggable Annotation Processing API (defines a pluggable interface for developing build-time annotation processors)