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* Copyright (c) 2005, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
* ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
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package java.text.spi;
import java.text.Collator;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider;
/**
* An abstract class for service providers that
* provide concrete implementations of the
* {@link java.text.Collator Collator} class.
*
* @since 1.6
*/
public abstract class CollatorProvider extends LocaleServiceProvider {
/**
* Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically
* implicit.)
*/
protected CollatorProvider() {
}
/**
* Returns a new <code>Collator</code> instance for the specified locale.
* @param locale the desired locale.
* @return the <code>Collator</code> for the desired locale.
* @exception NullPointerException if
* <code>locale</code> is null
* @exception IllegalArgumentException if <code>locale</code> isn't
* one of the locales returned from
* {@link java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider#getAvailableLocales()
* getAvailableLocales()}.
* @see java.text.Collator#getInstance(java.util.Locale)
*/
public abstract Collator getInstance(Locale locale);
}