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  25 
  26 package com.sun.mirror.declaration;
  27 
  28 
  29 import com.sun.mirror.type.InterfaceType;
  30 
  31 
  32 /**
  33  * Represents the declaration of an interface.
  34  * Provides access to information about the interface and its members.
  35  * Note that an {@linkplain AnnotationTypeDeclaration annotation type} is
  36  * a kind of interface.
  37  *
  38  * <p> While an <tt>InterfaceDeclaration</tt> represents the
  39  * <i>declaration</i> of an interface, an {@link InterfaceType}
  40  * represents an interface <i>type</i>.
  41  * See {@link TypeDeclaration} for more on this distinction.
  42  *
  43  * @deprecated All components of this API have been superseded by the
  44  * standardized annotation processing API.  The replacement for the
  45  * functionality of this interface is included in {@link
  46  * javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement}.
  47  *
  48  * @author Joseph D. Darcy
  49  * @author Scott Seligman
  50  *
  51  * @see InterfaceType
  52  * @since 1.5
  53  */
  54 @Deprecated
  55 @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
  56 public interface InterfaceDeclaration extends TypeDeclaration {
  57 }