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For remote accessing a repository (via svn:// and http://) SVNRepository drivers open socket connections to write and read data from. Session objects (implementing ISVNSession) may enable an SVNRepository object to use a single socket connection during the whole runtime, or, as an alternative, to use a new socket connection per each repository access operation (this slows the speed of operation execution since the operation needs some extra time for opening and closing a socket).

Also ISVNSession allows to cache and retrieve commit messages during runtime.

How to set a session object for an SVNRepository driver:

 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.io.ISVNSession;
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.io.SVNRepositoryFactory;
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.io.SVNRepository;
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNURL;
 ...
 ISVNSession session;
 ...
 SVNURL url = SVNURL.parseURIEncoded("svn://host/path/to/repos");
 try{
 SVNRepository repository = SVNRepositoryFactory.create(url, session);
 ...
 }catch(SVNException svne){
 ...
 }

For examlpe, a session object may hold a number of SVNRepository object references knowing for everyone of them if it should keep a single connection or not.
Parameters:
  repository - an SVNRepository driver true if repository should use a single socket connection during the whole runtime, false - to open/close a newconnection for each repository access operation