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package com.sun.tools.visualvm.tools.jmx;

import javax.management.MBeanServerConnection;

/**
 * <p>Cached MBeanServerConnection:</p>
 *
 * <p>This is an object that wraps an existing MBeanServerConnection and adds
 * caching to it, as follows:</p>
 *
 * <ul>
 * <li>The first time an attribute is called in a given MBean, the result is
 * cached. Every subsequent time getAttribute is called for that attribute
 * the cached result is returned.</li>
 * <li>When the {@link CachedMBeanServerConnection#flush()} method is invoked the
 * attributes cache is flushed. Then any subsequent call to getAttribute will
 * retrieve all the values for the attributes that are known to the cache.</li>
 * <li>The attributes cache uses a learning approach and only the attributes
 * that are in the cache will be retrieved between two subsequent updates.</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @author Eamonn McManus
 * @author Luis-Miguel Alventosa
 */
public interface CachedMBeanServerConnection extends MBeanServerConnection, MBeanCacheOperations {
}
