1<!DOCTYPE html> 2<html> 3<head> 4 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 5 <title>Annotation Scene Library overview</title> 6</head> 7 8<!-- Everything between <body> and </body> ends up in file overview-summary.html in the Javadoc. --> 9 10<body> 11The Annotation Scene Library provides classes to represent the annotations on a 12Java program and read and write those annotations in various formats. 13 14<h2>Structure</h2> 15 16<ul> 17<li>An {@link annotations.el.AScene} holds annotations for a set of classes 18and packages. 19</li> 20<li>A {@link annotations.el.AElement} represents one particular element of a 21Java program within an <code>AScene</code>. 22</li> 23<li>Package {@link annotations.io} provides routines to read and write 24{@link annotations.el.AScene}s in various formats. 25</li> 26<li>An {@link annotations.Annotation} represents an annotation (which might be a 27field of another annotation). It can be attached to an {@link annotations.el.AElement}. 28</li> 29<li>An {@link annotations.el.AnnotationDef} represents an annotation definition, 30consisting of a definition name and field names and types 31({@link annotations.field.AnnotationFieldType}s). It also indicates the 32annotation's retention policy. 33</li> 34</ul> 35 36<h2>Example</h2> 37 38<p> 39The example program <code>annotations.tests.Example</code> demonstrates the 40library's annotation-processing capabilities. Its source code (and also 41example input and output) are distributed with the Annotation Scene Library. 42</p> 43 44</body> 45</html> 46