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		<h1>@Delegate</h1>
		<div class="byline">Don't lose your composition</div>
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			<h3>Overview</h3>
			<p>
			<em> NEW IN Lombok 0.10: </em> Any field can be annotated with <code>@Delegate</code> to let lombok generate delegate methods that forward the call 
			to this field. 
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			Lombok delegates all <code>public</code> methods of the field's type, as well as those of its supertype except for all methods declared 
			in <code>java.lang.Object</code>. You can provide a specific implementation for a method by providing you own implementation, lombok will not
			generate delegate methods for those already declared in the class.
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			You can pass any number of classes into the <code>@Delegate</code> annotation. If you do that, then lombok will delegate all <code>public</code>
			methods in those types (and their supertypes, except <code>java.lang.Object</code>) instead of looking at the field's type.
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				<h3>With Lombok</h3>
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				<h3>Vanilla Java</h3>
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			<h3>Small print</h3><div class="smallprint">
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			When passing classes to the annotation, these cannot contain generics. This is a limitation of java that lombok cannot work around.
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			When passing classes to the annotation, these classes do not need to be supertypes of the field. See the example.
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