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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002 International Business Machines Corp. and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v0.5
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v05.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ ******************************************************************************/
+package net.sourceforge.phpdt.core;
+
+/**
+ * A factory that creates <code>IBuffer</code>s for openables.
+ * <p>
+ * This interface may be implemented by clients.
+ * </p>
+ * @since 2.0
+ */
+public interface IBufferFactory {
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a buffer for the given owner.
+ * The new buffer will be initialized with the contents of the owner
+ * if and only if it was not already initialized by the factory (a buffer is uninitialized if
+ * its content is <code>null</code>).
+ *
+ * @param owner the owner of the buffer
+ * @see IBuffer
+ */
+ IBuffer createBuffer(IOpenable owner);
+}
+