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The '''Metadata Facility for Java''' is a specification for [[Java (programming language)|Java]] that defines an [[API]] for [[annotation|annotating]] [[field (computer science)|fields]], [[method (computer science)|methods]], and [[class (computer science)|classes]] as having particular attributes that indicate they should be processed in specialspecific ways by [[development tool]]s, deployment tools, or [[library (computer science)|run-time libraries]].

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

== External links ==

* [http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=175 JSR 175] ''A Metadata Facility for the Java Programming Language''

* [http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=250 JSR 250] ''[[Jakarta Annotations|Common Annotations]]'' (defines common [[Java SE]] and [[Java EE]] annotations)

* [http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=269 JSR 269] ''Pluggable Annotation Processing API'' (defines a pluggable interface for developing build-time annotation processors)

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