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1 package com.sslexplorer.boot;
2
3
4 /**
5  * An abstract collection of {@link com.sslexplorer.boot.RepositoryStore} objects.
6  * <p>
7  * The concept of a <i>Repository</i> has been introduced to SSL-Explorer to
8  * deal with the fact that at some point we will want to introduce load
9  * balancing and fail-over facilities to the server.
10  * <p>
11  * Some key artifacts outside of the {@link com.sslexplorer.core.Database}
12  * implementations should also be shared amongst all instances that may
13  * be running on a network of SSL-Explorer servers. These include
14  * {@link com.sslexplorer.boot.KeyStoreManager} instances,
15  * {@link com.sslexplorer.extensions.store.ExtensionStore} instances and
16  * others.
17  * <p>
18  * Each repository implementation should be able to handle multiple stores.
19  * Each of these named stores then may contain multiple named <i>Entries</i>.
20  * Each entry is simply of blob of data that may be written to and read from
21  * using I/O streams.
22  *
23  * @author Lee David Painter <a HREF="mailto: lee@3sp.com">&lt;lee@3sp.com&gt;</a>
24  * @see com.sslexplorer.boot.RepositoryFactory
25  * @see com.sslexplorer.boot.LocalRepository
26  * @see com.sslexplorer.boot.RepositoryStore
27  */
28 public interface Repository {
29     
30     /**
31      * Get a store instance given its name. If the store does not exists then the
32      * implementation should create it. The same instance should be returned
33      * for every subsequent call.
34      *
35      * @param storeName store name
36      * @return store instance
37      */
38     public RepositoryStore getStore(String JavaDoc storeName);
39     
40 }
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