Package net.sf.ehcache.constructs.blocking

Doug Lea in his book Concurrent Programming in Java talks about concurrency support constructs.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
CacheEntryFactory	Creates objects to populate the cache.
UpdatingCacheEntryFactory	A CacheEntryFactory with one additional method, updateEntryValue((Serializable key, Serializable value) which allows the cache entry to updated rather than replaced.

Class Summary

Class	Description
BlockingCache	A blocking decorator for an Ehcache, backed by a Ehcache.
BlockingCacheOperationOutcomes	The Class BlockingCacheOperationOutcomes.
SelfPopulatingCache	A selfpopulating decorator for Ehcache that creates entries on demand.
UpdatingSelfPopulatingCache	A Cache backed cache that creates entries on demand.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
BlockingCacheOperationOutcomes.GetOutcome	The operation outcome for BlockingCache gets

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
LockTimeoutException	Indicates that a timeout has occured while attempting to obtain a lock using ReadWriteLockSync.tryLock(net.sf.ehcache.concurrent.LockType, long)

Package net.sf.ehcache.constructs.blocking Description

Doug Lea in his book Concurrent Programming in Java talks about concurrency support constructs. One meaning of a construct is "an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances". Just like patterns emerge from noting the similarities of problems and gradually finding a solution to classes of them, so to constructs are general solutions to commond problems. With the constructs package, concrete, extensible implementations are offered to solve these common problems.