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+/*
+ * Copyright 2005 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
+ * have any questions.
+ */
+
+package java.util.spi;
+
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+/**
+ * An abstract class for service providers that
+ * provide localized time zone names for the
+ * {@link java.util.TimeZone TimeZone} class.
+ * The localized time zone names available from the implementations of
+ * this class are also the source for the
+ * {@link java.text.DateFormatSymbols#getZoneStrings()
+ * DateFormatSymbols.getZoneStrings()} method.
+ *
+ * @since 1.6
+ */
+public abstract class TimeZoneNameProvider extends LocaleServiceProvider {
+
+ /**
+ * Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically
+ * implicit.)
+ */
+ protected TimeZoneNameProvider() {
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a name for the given time zone ID that's suitable for
+ * presentation to the user in the specified locale. The given time
+ * zone ID is "GMT" or one of the names defined using "Zone" entries
+ * in the "tz database", a public domain time zone database at
+ * <a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/">ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/</a>.
+ * The data of this database is contained in a file whose name starts with
+ * "tzdata", and the specification of the data format is part of the zic.8
+ * man page, which is contained in a file whose name starts with "tzcode".
+ * <p>
+ * If <code>daylight</code> is true, the method should return a name
+ * appropriate for daylight saving time even if the specified time zone
+ * has not observed daylight saving time in the past.
+ *
+ * @param ID a time zone ID string
+ * @param daylight if true, return the daylight saving name.
+ * @param style either {@link java.util.TimeZone#LONG TimeZone.LONG} or
+ * {@link java.util.TimeZone#SHORT TimeZone.SHORT}
+ * @param locale the desired locale
+ * @return the human-readable name of the given time zone in the
+ * given locale, or null if it's not available.
+ * @exception IllegalArgumentException if <code>style</code> is invalid,
+ * or <code>locale</code> isn't one of the locales returned from
+ * {@link java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider#getAvailableLocales()
+ * getAvailableLocales()}.
+ * @exception NullPointerException if <code>ID</code> or <code>locale</code>
+ * is null
+ * @see java.util.TimeZone#getDisplayName(boolean, int, java.util.Locale)
+ */
+ public abstract String getDisplayName(String ID, boolean daylight, int style, Locale locale);
+}