1 /**
2 * Copyright 2003-2007 Greg Luck
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16
17 package net.sf.ehcache.jcache;
18
19 import net.sf.jsr107cache.CacheLoader;
20
21 import java.util.Map;
22
23 /**
24 * An abstract factory for creating cache loaders. Implementers should provide their own
25 * concrete factory extending this factory.
26 * <p/>
27 * This enables plugins to be written.
28 * <p/>
29 * Note that JCache also allows the CacheLoader to be set after creation programmatically.
30 * @author Greg Luck
31 * @version $Id: CacheLoaderFactory.java 512 2007-07-10 09:18:45Z gregluck $
32 */
33 public abstract class CacheLoaderFactory {
34
35 /**
36 * Creates a CacheLoader. This method is called from {@link JCacheFactory}
37 * @param environment the same environment passed into {@link JCacheFactory}. This factory can
38 * extract any properties it needs from the environment.
39 * @return a constructed CacheLoader
40 */
41 public abstract CacheLoader createCacheLoader(Map environment);
42
43
44
45 }