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package org.jboss.stm.annotations;
import java.lang.annotation.*;
/**
* If pessimistic concurrency control is being used then a conflict will
* immediately cause the operation to fail and the application can do something
* else. If instead the developer wants the system to retry getting the lock
* before returning, then this annotation defines the time between each retry attempt.
* This is milliseconds.
*
* @author marklittle
*/
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ ElementType.METHOD })
public @interface Timeout
{
int period ();
}