001    /**
002     * Copyright (C) 2009-2011 the original author or authors.
003     * See the notice.md file distributed with this work for additional
004     * information regarding copyright ownership.
005     *
006     * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
007     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
008     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
009     *
010     *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
011     *
012     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
013     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
014     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
015     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
016     * limitations under the License.
017     */
018    
019    package org.codehaus.jackson.annotate;
020    
021    import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
022    import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
023    import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
024    import java.lang.annotation.Target;
025    
026    /**
027     * Meta-annotation (annotations used on other annotations)
028     * used for marking all annotations that are
029     * part of Jackson package. Can be used for recognizing all
030     * Jackson annotations generically, and in future also for
031     * passing other generic annotation configuration.
032     */
033    @Target({ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE})
034    @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
035    public @interface JacksonAnnotation
036    {
037        // for now, a pure tag annotation, no parameters
038    }