org.jasig.cas.ticket.registry.support
Interface LockingStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

JdbcLockingStrategy, NoOpLockingStrategy

public interface LockingStrategy

Strategy pattern for defining a locking strategy in support of exclusive execution of some process.

Since:

3.3.6

Version:

$Revision: 47482 $

Author:

Marvin S. Addison

Method Summary

boolean	acquire() Attempt to acquire the lock.
void	release() Release the lock if held.

Method Detail

acquire

boolean acquire()

Attempt to acquire the lock.

Returns:

True if lock was successfully acquired, false otherwise.

release

void release()

Release the lock if held. If the lock is not held nothing is done.