org.exoplatform.services.cache
Interface CacheService

All Known Implementing Classes:

CacheServiceImpl

public interface CacheService

The cache service. Created by The eXo Platform SAS. Author : Tuan Nguyen tuan08@users.sourceforge.net Date: Jun 14, 2003 Time: 1:12:22 PM

Method Summary

void	addExoCacheConfig(ExoCacheConfigPlugin plugin) Adds a cache configuration plugin.
Collection<ExoCache<? extends Serializable,?>>	getAllCacheInstances() Returns a collection of all the cache instances.
<K extends Serializable,V> ExoCache<K,V>	getCacheInstance(String region) Returns a specific cache instance.

Method Detail

addExoCacheConfig

void addExoCacheConfig(ExoCacheConfigPlugin plugin)

Adds a cache configuration plugin.

Parameters:

plugin - the plugin

getCacheInstance

<K extends Serializable,V> ExoCache<K,V> getCacheInstance(String region)
                                                    throws NullPointerException,
                                                           IllegalArgumentException

Returns a specific cache instance.

Type Parameters:

K - the key type

V - the value type

Parameters:

region - the cache region

Returns:

the cache

Throws:

NullPointerException - if the region argument is null

IllegalArgumentException - if the region argument length is zero

getAllCacheInstances

Collection<ExoCache<? extends Serializable,?>> getAllCacheInstances()

Returns a collection of all the cache instances.

Returns:

all the caches