001package org.apache.commons.jcs.auxiliary.remote.http.client.behavior; 002 003/* 004 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 005 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 006 * distributed with this work for additional information 007 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 008 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 009 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 010 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 011 * 012 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 013 * 014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 015 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 016 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 017 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 018 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 019 * under the License. 020 */ 021 022import org.apache.commons.jcs.auxiliary.remote.http.client.RemoteHttpCacheAttributes; 023import org.apache.commons.jcs.engine.behavior.ICacheServiceNonLocal; 024 025import java.io.IOException; 026 027 028/** 029 * It's not entirely clear that this interface is needed. I simply wanted the initialization method. 030 * This could be added to the ICacheSerice method. 031 */ 032public interface IRemoteHttpCacheClient<K, V> 033 extends ICacheServiceNonLocal<K, V> 034{ 035 /** 036 * The provides an extension point. If you want to extend this and use a special dispatcher, 037 * here is the place to do it. 038 * <p> 039 * @param attributes 040 */ 041 void initialize( RemoteHttpCacheAttributes attributes ); 042 043 /** 044 * Make and alive request. 045 * <p> 046 * @return true if we make a successful alive request. 047 * @throws IOException 048 */ 049 boolean isAlive() 050 throws IOException; 051}