Package com.jme3.asset.cache

com.jme3.asset.cache contains the AssetCache interface as well as its implementations.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AssetCache	AssetCache is an interface for asset caches.

Class Summary

Class	Description
SimpleAssetCache	SimpleAssetCache is an asset cache that caches assets without any automatic removal policy.
WeakRefAssetCache	A garbage collector bound asset cache that handles non-cloneable objects.
WeakRefCloneAssetCache	WeakRefCloneAssetCache caches cloneable assets in a weak-key cache, allowing them to be collected when memory is low.

Package com.jme3.asset.cache Description

com.jme3.asset.cache contains the AssetCache interface as well as its implementations.

AssetCaches

The asset cache implementations are used by AssetManager to cache loaded assets for faster access if they are requested again.

Assets in jME3 are cached in such a way that if there are no instances of that asset anymore in memory, then jME3 is likely to reclaim them. Some asset types must be cloned prior to being used, for example, 3D models cannot be stored in the cache as-is, because the user is likely to modify them after loading them. To handle this, a copy of the asset is stored in the cache instead. The asset cache that implements these rules is the WeakRefCloneAssetCache and it is used for caching most asset types.