Class CollatorProvider

• java.lang.Object
• • java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider
  • • java.text.spi.CollatorProvider

public abstract class CollatorProvider
extends LocaleServiceProvider

An abstract class for service providers that provide concrete implementations of the Collator class.

Since:

1.6

Constructors

CollatorProvider

protected CollatorProvider()

Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.)

Methods

getInstance

public abstract Collator getInstance(Locale locale)

Returns a new Collator instance for the specified locale.

Parameters:

locale - the desired locale.

Returns:

the Collator for the desired locale.

Throws:

NullPointerException - if locale is null

IllegalArgumentException - if locale isn't one of the locales returned from getAvailableLocales().

See Also:

Collator.getInstance(java.util.Locale)