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package com.techempower.cache;

import java.util.*;

import com.techempower.util.*;

/**
 * A GroupInitializer is simply responsible for providing an initial list of
 * objects for a CacheGroup.  The rationale for this is that in some cases,
 * a CacheGroup is not initialized via a database query.  In particular, this
 * is used by PureMemoryGroup.
 * 
 * @see PureMemoryGroup
 */
public interface GroupInitializer
{

  /**
   * Provide a list of all objects to store in the CacheGroup during its
   * initialization.
   */
  List list();

}