* default} methods. Specifically, it forwards calls only for methods that existed <a
 * href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/ListIterator.html">before {@code
 * default} methods were introduced</a>. For newer methods, like {@code forEachRemaining}, it
 * inherits their default implementations. When those implementations invoke methods, they invoke
 * methods on the {@code ForwardingListIterator}.
 *

 * default} methods. Specifically, it forwards calls only for methods that existed <a
 * href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ConcurrentMap.html">before
 * {@code default} methods were introduced</a>. For newer methods, like {@code forEach}, it inherits
 * their default implementations. When those implementations invoke methods, they invoke methods on
 * the {@code ForwardingConcurrentMap}.
 *
 * @author Charles Fry

        throw new AssertionError(e);
      } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        // That API is public.
        throw newLinkageError(e);
      } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
        // Only introduced in Java 9.
        return null;
      }
    }

    private static LinkageError newLinkageError(Throwable cause) {
      return new LinkageError(cause.toString(), cause);
    }
  }

 * default} methods. Specifically, it forwards calls only for methods that existed <a
 * href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ConcurrentMap.html">before
 * {@code default} methods were introduced</a>. For newer methods, like {@code forEach}, it inherits
 * their default implementations. When those implementations invoke methods, they invoke methods on
 * the {@code ForwardingConcurrentMap}.
 *
 * @author Charles Fry

 * default} methods. Specifically, it forwards calls only for methods that existed <a
 * href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Iterator.html">before {@code default}
 * methods were introduced</a>. For newer methods, like {@code forEachRemaining}, it inherits their
 * default implementations. When those implementations invoke methods, they invoke methods on the
 * {@code ForwardingIterator}.
 *

 * href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch03.pdf">The Unicode Standard Core
 * Specification, Chapter 3</a>.
 *
 * <p>The variant of UTF-8 implemented by this class is the restricted definition of UTF-8
 * introduced in Unicode 3.1. One implication of this is that it rejects <a
 * href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum1.html">"non-shortest form"</a> byte sequences,
 * even though the JDK decoder may accept them.
 *

   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> this method is now unnecessary and should be treated as deprecated; use {@link
   * java.util.Objects#equals} instead.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("InlineMeSuggester") // would introduce fully qualified references to Objects
  public static boolean equal(@Nullable Object a, @Nullable Object b) {
    return java.util.Objects.equals(a, b);
  }

  /**

package com.google.common.collect;

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtIncompatible;
import java.util.SortedSet;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Superinterface of {@link SortedMultiset} to introduce a bridge method for {@code elementSet()},
 * to ensure binary compatibility with older Guava versions that specified {@code elementSet()} to
 * return {@code SortedSet}.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtIncompatible

   */
  @JvmField val minimumConcurrentCalls: Int = 0,
  /** How long to wait to retry pre-emptive connection attempts that fail. */
  @JvmField val backoffDelayMillis: Long = 60 * 1000,
  /** How much jitter to introduce in connection retry backoff delays */
  @JvmField val backoffJitterMillis: Int = 100,

import com.google.common.annotations.J2ktIncompatible;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMultimap;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.Service.State;

/**
 * Superinterface of {@link ServiceManager} to introduce a bridge method for {@code
 * servicesByState()}, to ensure binary compatibility with older Guava versions that specified
 * {@code servicesByState()} to return {@code ImmutableMultimap}.
 */
@J2ktIncompatible