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package org.apache.camel.spi.annotations;

import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Target({ ElementType.TYPE })
@ServiceFactory("language")
public @interface Language {

    String value();

    /**
     * The class that contains all the name of functions that are supported by the language. The name of the functions
     * are defined as {@code String} constants in the functions class.
     * 
     * The class to provide can be any class but by convention, we would expect a class whose name is of type
     * xxxConstants where xxx is the name of the corresponding language like for example
     * SimpleConstants for the language camel-simple.
     * 
     * The metadata of a given functions are retrieved directly from the annotation {@code @Metadata} added to the
     * {@code String} constant representing its name and defined in the functions class.
     */
    Class functionsClass() default void.class;

}