org.jasig.cas.ticket.registry.support

Interface LockingStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

JdbcLockingStrategy, JpaLockingStrategy, NoOpLockingStrategy

public interface LockingStrategy

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

Since:

3.3.6

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Marvin S. Addison

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
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.