package-info.java

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/*
 @ApiInfo(
 group="Stable"
 )
 */

/**
 * This package provides inter-operability between different
 * {@link com.oracle.truffle.api.TruffleLanguage Truffle languages}.
 * <p>
 * Languages can exchange primitive Java type wrapper objects (e.g., {@link java.lang.Byte},
 * {@link java.lang.Short}, {@link java.lang.Integer}, {@link java.lang.Long},
 * {@link java.lang.Float}, {@link java.lang.Double}, {@link java.lang.Character},
 * {@link java.lang.Boolean}, and {@link java.lang.String}) as well as any type implementing
 * {@link com.oracle.truffle.api.interop.TruffleObject}. Foreign objects are precisely those
 * implementing {@link com.oracle.truffle.api.interop.TruffleObject}.
 * <p>
 * To use a {@link com.oracle.truffle.api.interop.TruffleObject} from a different language, you need
 * to ask the language to build appropriate AST for a given
 * {@link com.oracle.truffle.api.interop.Message} with
 * {@link com.oracle.truffle.api.interop.Message#createNode}. The message can then be executed with
 * {@link com.oracle.truffle.api.interop.ForeignAccess} methods.
 * 
 * @since 0.8 or older
 */
package com.oracle.truffle.api.interop;