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| Entities within the workflow object model may be marked as annotated. |
| When marked as such they contract to provide one or more of a variety of |
| forms of metadata, whether generic or specific to the type of object |
| within the model. This description is deliberately kept vague for now |
| because we haven't yet enumerated what classes of annotation exist on |
| each entity. |
| <p>From this point in we will use the term 'metadata' to distinguish |
| between annotations in terms of properties of the workflow and |
| annotations in terms of the Java 5 language feature. This is |
| particularly important we we use Java Annotations to implement the |
| workflow annotations. Yay. |
| <p>In keeping with the read-only model of the API package all |
| metadata interfaces only specify the get methods for their respective |
| contents. Modification of metadata instances is performed through Edit |
| objects. |
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