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The '''marker interface pattern''' is a my pattern [[design pattern (computer science)|design pattern]] in [[computer science]], used with languages that provide run-time type information about objects. It provides a means to associate metadata with a class where the language does not have explicit support for such metadata.

To use this pattern, a [[Class (computer science)|class]] implements a '''marker interface'''<ref name="EffectiveJava">