com.wiley.posa3.pooling
Interface Pool

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConnectionPool, ConnectionPool

public interface Pool

Pool provides an interface for the acquisition and release of * resources by resource users. An implementation of the Pool interface would maintain a collection of Resource objects. When a user tries to acquire a resource, the resource would be fetched from this collection. Similarly, when the user releases the resource, it would be returned back to the collection.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Michael Kircher, Prashant Jain

Method Summary

Resource	acquire() Acquire a resource from the pool.
void	release(Resource resource) Release the resource back to the pool.

Method Detail

acquire

public Resource acquire()

Acquire a resource from the pool.

Returns:

Resource a resource from the pool.

release

public void release(Resource resource)

Release the resource back to the pool.

Parameters:

resource - the resource that should be put back in the pool.