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25
26 package java.text.spi;
27
28 import java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols;
29 import java.util.Locale;
30 import java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider;
31
32 /**
33 * An abstract class for service providers that
34 * provide instances of the
35 * {@link java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols DecimalFormatSymbols} class.
36 *
37 * @since 1.6
38 * @version @(#)DecimalFormatSymbolsProvider.java 1.8 07/05/05
39 */
40 public abstract class DecimalFormatSymbolsProvider extends
41 LocaleServiceProvider {
42
43 /**
44 * Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically
45 * implicit.)
46 */
47 protected DecimalFormatSymbolsProvider() {
48 }
49
50 /**
51 * Returns a new <code>DecimalFormatSymbols</code> instance for the
52 * specified locale.
53 *
54 * @param locale the desired locale
55 * @exception NullPointerException if <code>locale</code> is null
56 * @exception IllegalArgumentException if <code>locale</code> isn't
57 * one of the locales returned from
58 * {@link java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider#getAvailableLocales()
59 * getAvailableLocales()}.
60 * @return a <code>DecimalFormatSymbols</code> instance.
61 * @see java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols#getInstance(java.util.Locale)
62 */
63 public abstract DecimalFormatSymbols getInstance(Locale locale);
64 }
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