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 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.e4.ui.di;

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;

/**
 * Parts can specify this annotation on one of the methods to tag it as the method that performs
 * "save" operation.
 * <p>
 * This annotation must not be applied to more than one method on a class. If multiple methods of
 * the class are tagged with this this annotation, only one of them will be called to persist data.
 * </p>
 * @since 1.0
 */
@Documented
@Target({ ElementType.METHOD })
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface Persist {
	// intentionally left empty
}