src/share/classes/java/lang/annotation/InvalidContainerAnnotationError.java
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/*
- * Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
*
* This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
* published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this
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package java.lang.annotation;
import java.util.Objects;
/**
- * Thrown to indicate that an annotation type whose declaration is
- * (meta-)annotated with a {@link ContainerFor} annotation is not, in
- * fact, the <em>containing annotation type of the type named by {@link
- * ContainerFor}</em>.
+ * Thrown to indicate that an annotation type expected to act as a
+ * container for another annotation type by virture of an @Repeatable
+ * annotation, does not act as a container.
*
* @see java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement
* @since 1.8
* @jls 9.6 Annotation Types
* @jls 9.7 Annotations