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Bridje Inversion of Control API

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/*
 * Copyright 2015 Bridje Framework.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package org.bridje.ioc;

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

/**
 * Defines the priority of the component in a way that the small values are the
 * highest priority component. The container will use this annotation to find
 * out the default implementation (the one with highest priority) for the given
 * service.
 */
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
public @interface Priority
{
    /**
     * The priority of the component.
     * 
     * @return An integer witch represents the priority of the component.
     */
    int value() default Integer.MAX_VALUE;
}