/**
 * <copyright> Copyright 2006 by Know-Center, Graz, Austria </copyright>
 * PDF-AS has been contracted by the E-Government Innovation Center EGIZ, a
 * joint initiative of the Federal Chancellery Austria and Graz University of
 * Technology.
 *
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 */
package at.gv.egiz.pdfas.framework;

/**
 * The DataManager is a mediator for all components that need to allocate large
 * data elements.
 * 
 * <p>
 * The DataManager uses a certain DataStrategy to perform the actual tasks. The
 * strategy may be different in different environments. E.g. The commandline may
 * implement a strategy to keep all data in memory, whereas the web might
 * implement one that puts as many data onto the disk as possible to save
 * memory.
 * </p>
 * 
 * @author wprinz
 * 
 */
public class DataManager
{
  protected static DataStrategy dataStrategy = null;

  public static void initialize(DataStrategy ds)
  {
    dataStrategy = ds;
  }

  public static DataStrategy getDataStrategy()
  {
    return dataStrategy;
  }

}