1. /*

  2.  * Copyright 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation

  3.  * 

  4.  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  5.  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  6.  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  7.  * 

  8.  *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  9.  * 

  10.  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  11.  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  12.  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  13.  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

  14.  * limitations under the License.

  15.  */

  16. package org.apache.commons.attributes;

  17. 

  18. /**

  19.  * This attribute is used to mark attributes as being indexed.

  20.  * Elements with indexed attributes can be found via an {@link AttributeIndex},

  21.  * but incur a slight processing and memory penalty. You must also

  22.  * run the attribute-indexer tool on the Jar-file containing the classes

  23.  * you wish to find via the index.

  24.  *

  25.  * <p><b>Note:</b> Indexed attributes that are inherited will not be found

  26.  * via an {@link AttributeIndex}. You will only find the class/method/field where

  27.  * the attribute is actually declared via the index.

  28.  */

  29. public class Indexed {

  30. }