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Annotation	Description
Documented	Indicates that annotations with a type are to be documented by javadoc and similar tools by default. This type should be used to annotate the declarations of types whose annotations affect the use of annotated elements by their clients.
Inherited	Indicates that an annotation type is automatically inherited. If an Inherited meta-annotation is present on an annotation type declaration, and the user queries the annotation type on a class declaration, and the class declaration has no annotation for this type, then the class's superclass will automatically be queried for the annotation type.
Retention	Indicates how long annotations with the annotated type are to be retained. If no Retention annotation is present on an annotation type declaration, the retention policy defaults to RetentionPolicy.CLASS.
Target	Indicates the kinds of program element to which an annotation type is applicable. If a Target meta-annotation is not present on an annotation type declaration, the declared type may be used on any program element.
Interface	Description
Annotation	The common interface extended by all annotation types.
Enum	Description
ElementType	A program element type. The constants of this enumerated type provide a simple classification of the declared elements in a Java program.
RetentionPolicy	Annotation retention policy. The constants of this enumerated type describe the various policies for retaining annotations
Exception	Description
AnnotationTypeMismatchException	Thrown to indicate that a program has attempted to access an element of an annotation whose type has changed after the annotation was compiled (or serialized).
IncompleteAnnotationException	Thrown to indicate that a program has attempted to access an element of an annotation type that was added to the annotation type definition after the annotation was compiled (or serialized).
Error	Description
AnnotationFormatError	Thrown when the annotation parser attempts to read an annotation from a class file and determines that the annotation is malformed.