001 /*
002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
008 *
009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
010 *
011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
015 * limitations under the License.
016 */
017
018 package org.apache.commons.pool;
019
020 /**
021 * A factory interface for creating {@link ObjectPool}s.
022 *
023 * @see ObjectPool
024 *
025 * @author Rodney Waldhoff
026 * @version $Revision: 777748 $ $Date: 2009-05-22 17:00:44 -0700 (Fri, 22 May 2009) $
027 * @since Pool 1.0
028 */
029 public interface ObjectPoolFactory {
030 /**
031 * Create and return a new {@link ObjectPool}.
032 * @return a new {@link ObjectPool}
033 * @throws IllegalStateException when this pool factory is not configured properly
034 */
035 ObjectPool createPool() throws IllegalStateException;
036 }