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+package org.apache.lucene.messages;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+/**
+ * Message Interface for a lazy loading.
+ * For Native Language Support (NLS), system of software internationalization.
+ */
+public interface Message extends Serializable {
+
+ public String getKey();
+
+ public Object[] getArguments();
+
+ public String getLocalizedMessage();
+
+ public String getLocalizedMessage(Locale locale);
+
+}