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package com.sun.jini.discovery.internal;

import com.sun.jini.discovery.DiscoveryFormatProvider;

/**
 * Base superclass for discovery format provider implementations.
 */
public class BaseProvider implements DiscoveryFormatProvider {

    /** The format name. */
    protected final String formatName;

    /**
     * Constructs instance with the given format name.
     */
    protected BaseProvider(String formatName) {
	if (formatName == null) {
	    throw new NullPointerException();
	}
	this.formatName = formatName;
    }

    // documentation inherited from DiscoveryFormatProvider
    public String getFormatName() {
	return formatName;
    }
}