001// Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
002//
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014
015package org.apache.tapestry.services;
016
017import java.util.Locale;
018
019import org.apache.tapestry.IEngine;
020
021/**
022 * Responsible for creating new instance of {@link org.apache.tapestry.IEngine}.
023 *
024 * @author Howard Lewis Ship
025 * @since 4.0
026 */
027public interface EngineFactory
028{
029        /**
030         * Creates and initializes a new engine instance for the specified locale.
031         */
032        public IEngine constructNewEngineInstance(Locale locale);
033}