org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.metadata

Interface ProjectCache

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileBasedProjectCache

public interface ProjectCache

Purpose: Interface used to support caching the project generated from metadata avoiding costs associated processing the same metadata over multiple deployments.

See Also:

PersistenceUnitProperties.PROJECT_CACHE

Author:

cdelahunt

Since:

EclipseLink 2.4.1

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Project	retrieveProject(java.util.Map properties, java.lang.ClassLoader loader, SessionLog log) PUBLIC: This method is responsible for returning the cached metadata as represented by a Project instance.
void	storeProject(Project project, java.util.Map properties, SessionLog log) PUBLIC: This method is responsible for caching a project instance representing the application metadata.

Method Detail

retrieveProject

Project retrieveProject(java.util.Map properties,
                        java.lang.ClassLoader loader,
                        SessionLog log)

PUBLIC: This method is responsible for returning the cached metadata as represented by a Project instance. This instance will have limited processing performed to turn string instances into classes during deployment. The classloader provided is the application loader. Please note that using it to load application classes (Entities) may prevent them from being dynamically woven.

Since:

EclipseLink 2.4.1

storeProject

void storeProject(Project project,
                  java.util.Map properties,
                  SessionLog log)

PUBLIC: This method is responsible for caching a project instance representing the application metadata.

Since:

EclipseLink 2.4.1