package-info.java

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2008-2017, Hazelcast, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 *
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/**
 * <p>This package contains Lock for Hazelcast.<br/>
 *
 * The {@link com.hazelcast.core.ILock} is the distributed version of the {@link java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock}.
 * So a lock can be acquired by different JVM's in the same cluster. When a JVM dies which acquired the Lock, the lock
 * is automatically released to prevent deadlocks. When a JVM dies which owns the partitions of that lock, the backup
 * partition will make sure that the lock is restored and therefor the lock is also highly available.
 *
 * @since 1
 */
package com.hazelcast.concurrent.lock;