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  * Copyright 2005-2007 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

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  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

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 package org.kuali.rice.ksb.api.cache;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.lifecycle.Lifecycle;

 /**

  * Service for accessing and managing KEW primary cache

  *

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  */

 public interface RiceCacheAdministrator extends Lifecycle {

         public Object getFromCache(String key);

         public Object getFromCache(String key, int refreshPeriod);

         public Object getFromCache(String key, int refreshPeriod,  String cronExpression);

         public void putInCache(String key, Object content, String[] groups);

         public void putInCache(String key, Object content, String group);

         public void putInCache(String key, Object content);

         public void flushEntry(String key);

         public void flushGroup(String group);

         public void flushAll();

         public void setCacheCapacity(int capacity);

         public void setForceRegistryRefresh(boolean forceRegistryRefresh);

 }