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Entity Capabilities
===================
This section details the usage of Smacks implementation of Entity
Capabilities.
**XEP related:** [XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities](http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0115.html)
**Description**
Entity Capabilities is a XMPP Protocol extension, which, in order to minimize
network impact, caches the capabilities of XMPP entities. Those capabilities
are determined with the help of the Service Discovery Protocol
([XEP-0030](http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0030.html)).
**Usage**
Entity Capabilities work silenty in background when enabled. If the remote
XMPP entity does not support XEP-0115 but XEP-0030 then XEP-0030 mechanisms
are transparently used. You can enable or disable Entity Capabilities by using
_**EntityCapsManager**_.
The cache used by Smack for Entity Capabilities is non-persistent as default.
That is, the cache only uses memory. But it is also possible to set a
persistent Entity Capabilities cache, which is recommended.
**Examples**
Enable Entity Capabilities
```
// Get an instance of entity caps manager for the specified connection
EntityCapsManager mgr = EntityCapsManager.getInstanceFor(connection);
// Enable entity capabilities
mgr.enableEntityCaps();
```
Configure a persistent cache for Entity Capabilities
```
// Get an instance of entity caps manager for the specified connection
EntityCapsManager mgr = EntityCapsManager.getInstanceFor(connection);
// Create an cache, see smackx.entitycaps.cache for pre-defined cache implementations
EntityCapsPersistentCache cache = new SimpleDirectoryPersistentCache(new File("/foo/cachedir"));
// Set the cache
mgr.setPersistentCache(cache);
```