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0N/A * Copyright 2000-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 0N/A * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 0N/A * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 0N/A * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 0N/A * published by the Free Software Foundation. Sun designates this 0N/A * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 0N/A * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. 0N/A * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 0N/A * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 0N/A * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License 0N/A * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 0N/A * accompanied this code). 0N/A * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 0N/A * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 0N/A * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 0N/A * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, 0N/A * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or 0N/A * have any questions. 0N/A * A factory object that generates Preferences objects. Providers of 0N/A * new {@link Preferences} implementations should provide corresponding 0N/A * <tt>PreferencesFactory</tt> implementations so that the new 0N/A * <tt>Preferences</tt> implementation can be installed in place of the 0N/A * platform-specific default implementation. 0N/A * <p><strong>This class is for <tt>Preferences</tt> implementers only. 0N/A * Normal users of the <tt>Preferences</tt> facility should have no need to 0N/A * consult this documentation.</strong> 0N/A * @author Josh Bloch 0N/A * Returns the system root preference node. (Multiple calls on this 0N/A * method will return the same object reference.) 0N/A * Returns the user root preference node corresponding to the calling 0N/A * user. In a server, the returned value will typically depend on 0N/A * some implicit client-context.