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1   /*
2    * $Source$
3    * $Revision$
4    *
5    * Copyright (C) 2000 William Chesters
6    *
7    * Part of Melati (http://melati.org), a framework for the rapid
8    * development of clean, maintainable web applications.
9    *
10   * Melati is free software; Permission is granted to copy, distribute
11   * and/or modify this software under the terms either:
12   *
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15   *    any later version,
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17   *    or
18   *
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20   *    at http://melati.org
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40   *
41   *     William Chesters <williamc At paneris.org>
42   *     http://paneris.org/~williamc
43   *     Obrechtstraat 114, 2517VX Den Haag, The Netherlands
44   */
45  
46  package org.melati.poem.transaction;
47  
48  /**
49   * A pool of <code>Transactions</code>.
50   *
51   */
52  public interface TransactionPool {
53  
54    /**
55     * @return the maximum number of Transactions we can store. 
56     */
57    int transactionsMax();
58  
59    /**
60     * Set the maximum number of transactions in this pool.
61     * 
62     * @param tMax maximum number of transactions to set
63     */
64    void setTransactionsMax(int tMax);
65    
66    /**
67     * Get a {@link Transaction} by its index.
68     * 
69     * @param index the Transaction index to retrieve
70     * @return the found Transaction
71     */
72    Transaction transaction(int index);
73    
74    /**
75     * @return Returns the total number of transactions.
76     */
77    int getTransactionsCount();
78    
79    /**
80     * @return the number of free transactions.
81     */
82    int getFreeTransactionsCount();
83  
84  
85  }