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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1 
+ * with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a
+ * copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+ * either express or implied. See the License for the specific
+ * language governing permissions and limitations under the
+ * License.
+ */
+package org.alfresco.repo.cache;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+/**
+ * Basic caching interface.
+ * <p>
+ * All implementations <b>must</b> be thread-safe.  Additionally, the use of the
+ * <tt>Serializable</tt> for both keys and values ensures that the underlying
+ * cache implementations can support both clustered caches as well as persistent
+ * caches.
+ * 
+ * @author Derek Hulley
+ */
+public interface SimpleCache<K extends Serializable, V extends Serializable>
+{
+    public boolean contains(K key);
+    
+    public V get(K key);
+    
+    public void put(K key, V value);
+    
+    public void remove(K key);
+    
+    public void clear();
+}