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/*
 * Copyright (c) 1997, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0, which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
 *
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 * version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception, which is available at
 * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
 */

package jakarta.ejb;

import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.*;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.*;

/**
 * Designates a method on a stateless session bean class, a singleton
 * session bean class, a message driven bean class, or an enterprise bean 2.x entity bean
 * class that should receive enterprise bean timer expirations for that bean.
 * 
 * The method to which the Timeout annotation is applied
 * must have one of the following signatures, where <METHOD>
 * designates the method name:
 * 

 * 
 * void <METHOD>()
 * void <METHOD>(Timer timer)
 * 
 *
 * A timeout callback method can have public, private, protected, or package level 
 * access.  A timeout callback method must not be declared as final or static.
 * Timeout callback methods must not throw application exceptions.
 * 
 * If the bean implements the TimedObject interface, the
 * Timeout annotation can only be applied to the
 * ejbTimeout method.
 *
 * @since EJB 3.0
 */

@Target(METHOD) 
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Timeout {}