org.exolab.castor.persist.cache
Class AbstractCacheFactory

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

CacheFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

CoherenceCacheFactory, CountLimitedFactory, FKCacheFactory, JCacheFactory, JcsCacheFactory, 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.

Author:

Werner Guttmann

Constructor Summary

AbstractCacheFactory()

Method Summary

Cache	getCache(java.lang.ClassLoader classLoader) Instantiates an instance of the given class.
abstract java.lang.String	getCacheClassName() Returns the full class name of the underlying cache implementation.
abstract java.lang.String	getName() Returns the short alias for this factory instance.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.exolab.castor.persist.cache.CacheFactory

shutdown

Constructor Detail

AbstractCacheFactory

public AbstractCacheFactory()

Method Detail

getCache

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

Instantiates an instance of the given class.

Specified by:

getCache in interface CacheFactory

Parameters:

classLoader - A ClassLoader instance.

Returns:

A Cache instance.

Throws:

CacheAcquireException - Problem instantiating a cache instance.

getName

public abstract java.lang.String getName()

Returns the short alias for this factory instance.

Specified by:

getName in interface CacheFactory

Returns:

The short alias name.

getCacheClassName

public abstract java.lang.String getCacheClassName()

Returns the full class name of the underlying cache implementation.

Specified by:

getCacheClassName in interface CacheFactory

Returns:

The full cache class name.