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19 package org.apache.maven.api.services.model;
20
21 import org.apache.maven.api.annotations.Experimental;
22 import org.apache.maven.api.annotations.Nonnull;
23
24 /**
25 * Factory for creating model caches.
26 * <p>
27 * The model cache is meant for exclusive consumption by the model builder and is opaque to the cache implementation.
28 * The cache is created once per session and is valid through the lifetime of the session.
29 * <p>
30 * The cache implementation could be annotated with {@code SessionScoped} to be created once per session, but
31 * this would make tests more complicated to write as they would all need to enter the session scope.
32 *
33 * @since 4.0.0
34 */
35 @Experimental
36 public interface ModelCacheFactory {
37
38 @Nonnull
39 ModelCache newInstance();
40 }