net.sf.ashkay.strategies
Class SoftReferenceCachingStrategy

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.ashkay.strategies.SoftReferenceCachingStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

CachingStrategy

Direct Known Subclasses:

NullCachingStrategy

public class SoftReferenceCachingStrategy

extends java.lang.Object

implements CachingStrategy

A Soft Reference caching strategy uses soft references to store objects in the cache. Soft references do not prevent the garbage collection of the objects.

Author:

Dave Brown

Constructor Summary

SoftReferenceCachingStrategy()

Method Summary

CacheEntry	prepare(CacheEntry entry) Prepares the cache entry for caching with this strategy. NOTE: Be Careful: a caching strategy is allowed to return a different CacheEntry, so make sure that you store the results of this method and don't assume the symantics of pass by reference.
boolean	validate(CacheEntry entry) Validates this cache entry for this caching strategy.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SoftReferenceCachingStrategy

public SoftReferenceCachingStrategy()

Method Detail

prepare

public CacheEntry prepare(CacheEntry entry)

Description copied from interface: CachingStrategy

Prepares the cache entry for caching with this strategy.
NOTE: Be Careful: a caching strategy is allowed to return a different CacheEntry, so make sure that you store the results of this method and don't assume the symantics of pass by reference.

Specified by:

prepare in interface CachingStrategy

validate

public boolean validate(CacheEntry entry)

Description copied from interface: CachingStrategy

Validates this cache entry for this caching strategy.

Specified by:

validate in interface CachingStrategy