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Ehcache is an open source, standards-based cache used to boost performance, offload the database and simplify scalability. Ehcache is robust, proven and full-featured and this has made it the most widely-used Java-based cache.

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package net.sf.ehcache.pool;

import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * PoolEvictors are responsible for finding the best candidates in a collection of resources using a shared
 * resource pool and performing eviction on them.
 *
 * @param  The type of the resources to free space on.
 * @author Ludovic Orban
 * @author Alex Snaps
 */
public interface PoolEvictor {

    /**
     * Free at least N bytes from a collection of resources
     *
     * @param from a collection of resources to free from
     * @param bytes the number of bytes to free up
     * @return true if at least N bytes could be freed
     */
    boolean freeSpace(Collection> from, long bytes);

}