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Member
instances and are also subclasses of
AccessibleObject
(which per-
tains to access control). The classes
Class
,
Constructor
, and
Method
are all
GenericDeclaration
instances because they can be declared in a gener-
ic way. Finally, the class
Class
, the
AccessibleObject
subclasses, and the
Package
class are all instances of
AnnotatedElement
because they can have
annotations applied to them.
Figure 16-1. The Introspection Hierarchy
