org.castor.cache
Class AbstractCacheFactory

java.lang.Object
  org.castor.cache.AbstractCacheFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

CacheFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

CoherenceCacheFactory, CountLimitedFactory, EHCacheFactory, FIFOHashbeltFactory, FKCacheFactory, GigaspacesCacheFactory, JCacheFactory, JcsCacheFactory, LRUHashbeltFactory, NoCacheFactory, TimeLimitedFactory, UnlimitedFactory

public abstract class AbstractCacheFactory
extends java.lang.Object
implements CacheFactory

Base implementation of CacheFactory. Users interested in supplying their own cache implementations might want to extend this class to provide their own CacheFactory instance.

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Revision: 8578 $ $Date: 2006-04-25 16:09:10 -0600 (Tue, 25 Apr 2006) $

Author:

Werner Guttmann, Ralf Joachim

Constructor Summary

AbstractCacheFactory()

Method Summary

Cache	getCache(java.lang.ClassLoader classLoader) Instantiates an instance of the cache implementation this factory is responsible for using the given classloader.
protected boolean	isInitialized() Has the cache factory been initialized?
void	shutdown() Allows for cache-specific shutdown operations and resource cleanup.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.castor.cache.CacheFactory

getCacheClassName, getCacheType

Constructor Detail

AbstractCacheFactory

public AbstractCacheFactory()

Method Detail

isInitialized

protected final boolean isInitialized()

Has the cache factory been initialized?

Returns:

true if cache factory has been initialized, false otherwise.

getCache

public final Cache getCache(java.lang.ClassLoader classLoader)
                     throws CacheAcquireException

Instantiates an instance of the cache implementation this factory is responsible for using the given classloader.

Specified by:

getCache in interface CacheFactory

Parameters:

classLoader - A ClassLoader instance.

Returns:

A Cache instance.

Throws:

CacheAcquireException - Problem instantiating a cache instance.

shutdown

public void shutdown()

Allows for cache-specific shutdown operations and resource cleanup.

Specified by:

shutdown in interface CacheFactory