/** * This file is part of the JCROM project. * Copyright (C) 2008-2014 - All rights reserved. * Authors: Olafur Gauti Gudmundsson, Nicolas Dos Santos * * Licensed under the Apache 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 * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.jcrom; import javax.jcr.RepositoryException; import javax.jcr.Session; /** * Session Factory interface. This interface describes a simplfied contract for retrieving a session. * * @author Nicolas Dos Santos */ public interface SessionFactory { /** * Returns a Session using the credentials and workspace on this SessionFactory implementation. The session * factory doesn't allow specification of a different workspace name because: * <p> *" Each Session object is associated one-to-one with a Workspace object. The Workspace object represents * a `view` of an actual repository workspace entity as seen through the authorization settings of its * associated Session." (quote from javax.jcr.Session javadoc). * </p> * @return the session. * @throws RepositoryException */ Session getSession() throws RepositoryException; }