Java - Design Pattern, Session Management for Web Service Client

I am writing a client library for a web service using CXF. The service uses a mutable key to manage sessions and, optionally, allows a session to be kept alive.

I have built a client Client and I want to provide the ability for uses of the library to choose their type of session management i.e. either a manager which just manages keys but does not attempt to keep alive and a manager which manages keys and k开发者_如何转开发eeps the session alive.

I had thought of having a SessionManager field in the Client class (with a SimpleSessionManager class and a KeepAliveSessionManager class) but, in order to keep the session alive, the KeepAliveSessionManger would have to call a method of the Client class. That would mean that the Client class has a reference to the SessionManager class and the SessionManager class would have a reference to the Client class - which is obviously an inelegant design.

Can you suggest a design pattern (or altnernate implementation) that would let me implement these features in a 'better' way?

Cheers,

Pete

You could use the SessionManager as a factory for "clients" that would return an interface for the client. The client wouldn't need to "know" the SessionManager. And if the SessionMaAnager was a KeepAliveSessionMaanger, it would internally keep the session alive.

Something like this:

SessionManager sm = new KeepAliveSessionManager(int keepAliveTimeout);

IClient client = sm.GetClient();
client.InvokeSomeMethod();

The SessionManager internally uses a thread (or something) and the client to keep the session alive. The client never "knows" about the SessionManager..

BTW, i'm thinking in .NET but it should translate to java...