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1 /*
2  * Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
3  *
4  * Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1
5  * with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a
6  * copy of the License at
7  *
8  * http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt
9  *
10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
11  * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
12  * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
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15  * License.
16  */
17 package org.alfresco.repo.cache;
18
19 import java.io.Serializable JavaDoc;
20
21 /**
22  * Basic caching interface.
23  * <p>
24  * All implementations <b>must</b> be thread-safe. Additionally, the use of the
25  * <tt>Serializable</tt> for both keys and values ensures that the underlying
26  * cache implementations can support both clustered caches as well as persistent
27  * caches.
28  *
29  * @author Derek Hulley
30  */
31 public interface SimpleCache<K extends Serializable JavaDoc, V extends Serializable JavaDoc>
32 {
33     public boolean contains(K key);
34     
35     public V get(K key);
36     
37     public void put(K key, V value);
38     
39     public void remove(K key);
40     
41     public void clear();
42 }
43
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