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+/*
+ * Copyright 1997-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Sun designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
+ * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
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+ */
+
+package java.awt;
+
+import java.awt.image.ColorModel;
+import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
+import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
+
+/**
+ * This <code>Paint</code> interface defines how color patterns
+ * can be generated for {@link Graphics2D} operations.  A class
+ * implementing the <code>Paint</code> interface is added to the
+ * <code>Graphics2D</code> context in order to define the color
+ * pattern used by the <code>draw</code> and <code>fill</code> methods.
+ * <p>
+ * Instances of classes implementing <code>Paint</code> must be
+ * read-only because the <code>Graphics2D</code> does not clone
+ * these objects when they are set as an attribute with the
+ * <code>setPaint</code> method or when the <code>Graphics2D</code>
+ * object is itself cloned.
+ * @see PaintContext
+ * @see Color
+ * @see GradientPaint
+ * @see TexturePaint
+ * @see Graphics2D#setPaint
+ */
+
+public interface Paint extends Transparency {
+    /**
+     * Creates and returns a {@link PaintContext} used to
+     * generate the color pattern.
+     * Since the ColorModel argument to createContext is only a
+     * hint, implementations of Paint should accept a null argument
+     * for ColorModel.  Note that if the application does not
+     * prefer a specific ColorModel, the null ColorModel argument
+     * will give the Paint implementation full leeway in using the
+     * most efficient ColorModel it prefers for its raster processing.
+     * <p>
+     * Since the API documentation was not specific about this in
+     * releases before 1.4, there may be implementations of
+     * <code>Paint</code> that do not accept a null
+     * <code>ColorModel</code> argument.
+     * If a developer is writing code which passes a null
+     * <code>ColorModel</code> argument to the
+     * <code>createContext</code> method of <code>Paint</code>
+     * objects from arbitrary sources it would be wise to code defensively
+     * by manufacturing a non-null <code>ColorModel</code> for those
+     * objects which throw a <code>NullPointerException</code>.
+     * @param cm the {@link ColorModel} that receives the
+     * <code>Paint</code> data. This is used only as a hint.
+     * @param deviceBounds the device space bounding box
+     *                     of the graphics primitive being rendered
+     * @param userBounds the user space bounding box
+     *                     of the graphics primitive being rendered
+     * @param xform the {@link AffineTransform} from user
+     *      space into device space
+     * @param hints the hint that the context object uses to
+     *              choose between rendering alternatives
+     * @return the <code>PaintContext</code> for
+     *              generating color patterns
+     * @see PaintContext
+     */
+    public PaintContext createContext(ColorModel cm,
+                                      Rectangle deviceBounds,
+                                      Rectangle2D userBounds,
+                                      AffineTransform xform,
+                                      RenderingHints hints);
+
+}