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package org.jcoderz.commons.config;
/**
* The ServiceConfiguration Interface is the super interface
* for all derived *Service*Configuration interfaces that provide
* typed interface methods to get the configuration parameters that belong
* to the corresponding *Service*.
*
*/
public interface ServiceConfiguration
{
// currently no common method for all interfaces
/**
* selects the cache mode,if the types interface implementation should cache
* its configuration. The caching is enabled by default.
*
* NOTE: Please remark that this caching mode only determines the caching
* for the typed interface level. This is independent from the data access
* level where a separated caching might be available dependent to its
* implementation.
*
* @param doCaching if true, caching is enabled. if false no caching
* at the type interface level will be used.
*/
void enableCaching (boolean doCaching);
}