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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.lang3.text;
+
+import java.text.Format;
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+/**
+ * Format factory.
+ *
+ * @since 2.4
+ * @deprecated As of 3.6, use Apache Commons Text
+ * <a href="https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/text/FormatFactory.html">
+ * FormatFactory</a> instead
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public interface FormatFactory {
+
+    /**
+     * Create or retrieve a format instance.
+     *
+     * @param name The format type name
+     * @param arguments Arguments used to create the format instance. This allows the
+     *                  {@link FormatFactory} to implement the "format style"
+     *                  concept from {@code java.text.MessageFormat}.
+     * @param locale The locale, may be null
+     * @return The format instance
+     */
+    Format getFormat(String name, String arguments, Locale locale);
+
+}