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/**
* <p>Provides the definition of the Timer MBean. A Timer MBean
* maintains a list of scheduled notifications and, because it is a
* {@link javax.management.NotificationBroadcaster
* NotificationBroadcaster}, a list of listeners for those
* notifications. Whenever the time for one of the scheduled
* notifications is reached, each listener receives the
* notification. Notifications can be repeated at a fixed
* interval, and the number of repetitions can be bounded.</p>
*
* <p>A listener for a Timer MBean can itself be an MBean, using
* the method {@link
* javax.management.MBeanServer#addNotificationListener(ObjectName,
* ObjectName, NotificationFilter, Object)}. In this way, a
* management application can create an MBean representing a task,
* then schedule that task using a Timer MBean.</p>
*
* @since 1.5
*/
package javax.management.timer;