CacheFactory Class

com.bea.p13n.cache
CacheFactory Class

public class CacheFactory

    extends Object

Factory to create Singleton Cache objects. This implementation can be used by clients running inside of the CacheMBean application context (eg, most EJBs) as well as clients running outside of that context (eg, JDBC Connection Pools).


Hierarchy
Object
  CacheFactory

Constructor Summary

CacheFactory()

 

Method Summary

public static boolean
cacheExists(String cacheName)
Determine whether named cache exists in our collection
public static Cache
getCache(String name)
Create a new or access an existing Cache.
public static String[]
getCacheNames()
Returns all Cache names
public static void
removeCache(String cacheName)
Remove a cache from the system.
 
Methods from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
   

Constructor Detail

CacheFactory

public CacheFactory()
 

Method Detail

cacheExists(String) Method

public static boolean cacheExists(String cacheName)
Determine whether named cache exists in our collection

Returns

true if exists, false otherwise

getCache(String) Method

public static Cache getCache(String name)
Create a new or access an existing Cache.

If the cache has been pre-configured using MBeans, then create an instance of a cache with those parameters and return it. If the cache has not been pre-configured with MBeans, then create a cache with default parameters (defined in CacheDefaults) and return it.

If the cache exists already in the CacheFactory's collection (eg, it has been created by a previous call to CacheFactory.getCache()), then return an instance of that named cache.

Parameters

name
the name of the cache to create or retrieve

Returns

the cache that was created or retrieved.

Related Topics

CacheDefaults


getCacheNames() Method

public static String[] getCacheNames()
Returns all Cache names


removeCache(String) Method

public static void removeCache(String cacheName)
Remove a cache from the system. Clear cache before setting to null and removing it from our collection. Allows the Garbage Collector to clean up.

Parameters

cacheName
The name of the cache to remove.