§1.1 Team classes

A class declared with the modifier team is a team class (or team for short).

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public team class MyTeamA {
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  ...
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}

Teams are meant as containers for roles, which are defined in the following paragraphs.

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public team class MyTeamA {
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  public class MyRole
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    ...
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  }
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}

Teams introduce a new variant of inheritance for contained role classes (see §1.3.1 below). Other properties of teams, which are defined in later sections, are:

Apart from these differences, team classes are regular Java classes with methods and fields, whose instances are regular Java objects.