001    // Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
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014    
015    package org.apache.hivemind.internal;
016    
017    import java.util.Locale;
018    
019    /**
020     * An abstraction around the ResourceBundler-style property names and localized messages. The goal
021     * is to implement a {@link org.apache.hivemind.Messages} that obtains the actual localizations from
022     * an external source.
023     * 
024     * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship
025     */
026    public interface MessageFinder
027    {
028        /**
029         * Returns a message matching the key, in the indicated locale.
030         */
031    
032        public String getMessage(String key, Locale locale);
033    }