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-/*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2010 Oracle. All rights reserved.
- * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
- * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0, which accompanies this distribution
- * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html.
- * 
- * Contributors:
- *     Oracle - initial API and implementation
- ******************************************************************************/
-package org.eclipse.jpt.common.core.resource.java;
-
-import org.eclipse.jdt.core.IAnnotation;
-import org.eclipse.jpt.common.core.utility.jdt.AnnotatedElement;
-
-/**
- * Used to build Annotations discovered in the Java source code.
- * To provide new AnnotationDefinitions, create a new JaxbPlatform
- * by implementing JaxbPlatformDefinition.
- * 
- * @see Annotation
- * @see org.eclipse.jpt.jaxb.core.platform.JaxbPlatformDefinition
- * 
- * Provisional API: This interface is part of an interim API that is still
- * under development and expected to change significantly before reaching
- * stability. It is available at this early stage to solicit feedback from
- * pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API
- * will almost certainly be broken (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
- * 
- * @version 3.0
- * @since 3.0
- */
-public interface AnnotationDefinition
-{
-	/**
-	 * Return the name of the annotation the definition will build in the
-	 * various #build...(...) methods.
-	 */
-	String getAnnotationName();
-	
-	/**
-	 * Build and return an annotation for the specified annotated element.
-	 */
-	Annotation buildAnnotation(JavaResourceAnnotatedElement parent, AnnotatedElement annotatedElement);
-	
-	/**
-	 * Build and return an annotation for the specified JDT annotation
-	 * on the specified annotated element.
-	 */
-	Annotation buildAnnotation(JavaResourceAnnotatedElement parent, IAnnotation jdtAnnotation);
-	
-	/**
-	 * Build and return a "null" annotation for the specified annotated element.
-	 * Only certain annotations are required to have "null" implementations;
-	 * typically the annotations with reasonably complex default behavior.
-	 * The "null" annotation is used by the corresponding default context model.
-	 * The "null" annotation simplifies the context model code, allowing the
-	 * context model to simply set various bits of state (e.g. 'name') and the
-	 * "null" annotation will create a new "real" annotation and forward the
-	 * new state to it. This reduces the number of null checks in the context
-	 * model (hopefully).
-	 */
-	Annotation buildNullAnnotation(JavaResourceAnnotatedElement parent);
-
-}