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package org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2spi.config;

import javax.jcr.RepositoryException;

import org.apache.jackrabbit.spi.RepositoryService;

/**
 * This class bundles the information required by JCR2SPI to
 * bootstrap an SPI implementation.
 * <p>
 * Instances of this class <em>should</em> implement
 * {@link javax.naming.Referenceable} in order to make JCR2SPI's
 * {@link javax.jcr.Repository} itself referenceable.
 */
public interface RepositoryConfig {

    public RepositoryService getRepositoryService() throws RepositoryException;

    public CacheBehaviour getCacheBehaviour();

    public int getItemCacheSize();

    /**
     * Specifies an interval used for polling the {@link RepositoryService} for changes.
     * @return  the poll timeout in milliseconds.
     */
    public int getPollTimeout();
}
