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/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You 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.apache.catalina;

/**
 * A <b>Cluster</b> works as a Cluster client/server for the local host
 * Different Cluster implementations can be used to support different
 * ways to communicate within the Cluster. A Cluster implementation is
 * responsible for setting up a way to communicate within the Cluster
 * and also supply "ClientApplications" with <code>ClusterSender</code>
 * used when sending information in the Cluster and
 * <code>ClusterInfo</code> used for receiving information in the Cluster.
 *
 * @author Bip Thelin
 * @author Remy Maucherat
 * @author Filip Hanik
 *
 */

public interface Cluster {

    // ------------------------------------------------------------- Properties

    /**
     * Return descriptive information about this Cluster implementation and
     * the corresponding version number, in the format
     * <code>&lt;description&gt;/&lt;version&gt;</code>.
     */
    public String getInfo();

    /**
     * Return the name of the cluster that this Server is currently
     * configured to operate within.
     *
     * @return The name of the cluster associated with this server
     */
    public String getClusterName();

    /**
     * Set the name of the cluster to join, if no cluster with
     * this name is present create one.
     *
     * @param clusterName The clustername to join
     */
    public void setClusterName(String clusterName);

    /**
     * Set the Container associated with our Cluster
     *
     * @param container The Container to use
     */
    public void setContainer(Container container);

    /**
     * Get the Container associated with our Cluster
     *
     * @return The Container associated with our Cluster
     */
    public Container getContainer();

    /**
     * Set the protocol parameters.
     *
     * @param protocol The protocol used by the cluster
     * @deprecated
     */
    public void setProtocol(String protocol);

    /**
     * Get the protocol used by the cluster.
     *
     * @return The protocol
     * @deprecated
     */
    public String getProtocol();

    // --------------------------------------------------------- Public Methods

    /**
     * Create a new manager which will use this cluster to replicate its
     * sessions.
     *
     * @param name Name (key) of the application with which the manager is
     * associated
     */
    public Manager createManager(String name);
    
    /**
     * Register a manager with the cluster. If the cluster is not responsible 
     * for creating a manager, then the container will at least notify the 
     * cluster that this mananger is participating in the cluster.
     * @param manager Manager
     */
    public void registerManager(Manager manager);
    
    /**
     * Removes a manager from the cluster
     * @param manager Manager
     */
    public void removeManager(Manager manager);

    // --------------------------------------------------------- Cluster Wide Deployments
    
    
    /**
     * Execute a periodic task, such as reloading, etc. This method will be
     * invoked inside the classloading context of this container. Unexpected
     * throwables will be caught and logged.
     */
    public void backgroundProcess();
}