Utilities to make writing of JSR 269 Annotation Processors easier. During the JSR process, the JSR 269 Expert Group identified a number of situations where there would be benefit in having utility classes to assist with some of the more complex requirements. These utilities were outside of the core requirements for JSR 269 and are not included in JSR 269. The expert group nevertheless wish to share these with the community, which we are doing in this project. You could think of this project as the reference implementation for what was left out, plus some other goodies.