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The	O
Metadata	B-Language
Facility	I-Language
for	I-Language
Java	I-Language
is	O
a	O
specification	O
for	O
Java	B-Language
that	O
defines	O
an	O
API	B-General_Concept
for	O
annotating	O
fields	B-Application
,	O
methods	B-Language
,	O
and	O
classes	O
as	O
having	O
particular	O
attributes	O
that	O
indicate	O
they	O
should	O
be	O
processed	O
in	O
specific	O
ways	O
by	O
development	B-Application
tools	I-Application
,	O
deployment	O
tools	O
,	O
or	O
run-time	B-Library
libraries	I-Library
.	O
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<s>
The	O
specification	O
was	O
developed	O
under	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
Community	I-Language
Process	I-Language
as	O
JSR	B-Language
175	I-Language
,	O
and	O
was	O
released	O
as	O
a	O
part	O
of	O
J2SE	B-Language
5.0	O
(	O
Tiger	O
)	O
.	O
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