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package org.glassfish.grizzly.memory;

Allows creation/customization of MemoryManager implementation to be used as the MemoryManager.DEFAULT_MEMORY_MANAGER. Specify a custom DefaultMemoryManagerFactory implementation using a JVM system property "org.glassfish.grizzly.MEMORY_MANAGER_FACTORY". Implementations of this interface will be created by invoking its no-arg constructor. 
Since:
3.0/**
 * Allows creation/customization of {@link MemoryManager} implementation to be used as the
 * {@link MemoryManager#DEFAULT_MEMORY_MANAGER}.
 *
 * Specify a custom <code>DefaultMemoryManagerFactory</code> implementation using a JVM system property
 * {@value #DMMF_PROP_NAME}. Implementations of this interface will be created by invoking its no-arg constructor.
 *
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface DefaultMemoryManagerFactory {

    String DMMF_PROP_NAME = "org.glassfish.grizzly.MEMORY_MANAGER_FACTORY";

    
Returns:
the MemoryManager that should be used as the value of MemoryManager.DEFAULT_MEMORY_MANAGER. This method should return null if the MemoryManager could not be created./**
     * @return the MemoryManager that should be used as the value of {@link MemoryManager#DEFAULT_MEMORY_MANAGER}. This
     * method should return <code>null</code> if the {@link MemoryManager} could not be created.
     */
    MemoryManager createMemoryManager();

}