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    IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2009 IBM Corporation and others.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jdt.core;

A factory that creates IBuffers for openables.

This interface may be implemented by clients.

Since:
2.0
Deprecated:
Use WorkingCopyOwner instead/**
 * A factory that creates <code>IBuffer</code>s for openables.
 * <p>
 * This interface may be implemented by clients.
 * </p>
 * @since 2.0
 * @deprecated Use {@link WorkingCopyOwner} instead
 */
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 null).
Params:
owner – the owner of the buffer
See Also:
IBuffer
Returns:
the newly created buffer/**
	 * 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
	 * @return the newly created buffer
	 * @see IBuffer
	 */
	IBuffer createBuffer(IOpenable owner);
}