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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 {
}