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/*
  GRANITE DATA SERVICES
  Copyright (C) 2011 GRANITE DATA SERVICES S.A.S.

  This file is part of Granite Data Services.

  Granite Data Services is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
  option) any later version.

  Granite Data Services is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License
  for more details.

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  along with this library; if not, see .
*/

package org.granite.clustering;

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

/**
 * This annotation is intended to be used on classes that need to be cached in an HTTP session
 * without being replicated in a clustered environment. It will however only work in conjunction
 * with the session map returned by an HttpGraniteContext instance. 
 * 
 * @author Franck WOLFF
 * 
 * @see org.granite.messaging.webapp.HttpGraniteContext
 * @see TransientReferenceHolder
 */
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Inherited
@Documented
public @interface TransientReference {
}