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package org.jboss.axis.session;

import java.util.Enumeration;

/**
 * An abstract interface to provide session storage to Axis services.
 * <p/>
 * This is extremely basic at the moment.
 *
 * @author Glen Daniels (gdaniels@macromedia.com)
 */
public interface Session
{
   /**
    * Get a property from the session
    *
    * @param key the name of the property desired.
    */
   public Object get(String key);

   /**
    * Set a property in the session
    *
    * @param key   the name of the property to set.
    * @param value the value of the property.
    */
   public void set(String key, Object value);

   /**
    * Remove a property from the session
    *
    * @param key the name of the property desired.
    */
   public void remove(String key);

   /**
    * Get an enumeration of the keys in this session
    */
   public Enumeration getKeys();

   /**
    * Set the session's time-to-live.
    * <p/>
    * This is implementation-specific, but basically should be the #
    * of seconds of inactivity which will cause the session to time
    * out and invalidate.  "inactivity" is implementation-specific.
    */
   public void setTimeout(int timeout);

   /**
    * Return the sessions' time-to-live.
    *
    * @return the timeout value for this session.
    */
   public int getTimeout();

   /**
    * "Touch" the session (mark it recently used)
    */
   public void touch();

   /**
    * Get an Object suitable for synchronizing the session.  This method
    * exists because different session implementations might provide
    * different ways of getting at shared data.  For a simple hashtable-
    * based session, this would just be the hashtable, but for sessions
    * which use database connections, etc. it might be an object wrapping
    * a table ID or somesuch.
    */
   public Object getLockObject();
}