It would have to be a separate interface. Just as the JDK's completionService does not implement ExecutorService (despite the similarities in method name). On 15 Dec 2011, at 19:44, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote: > Hey, > > One of the users rightfully asked for extension of > DistributedExecutionCompletionService to include task submission to > cluster of nodes - http://community.jboss.org/thread/175686?tstart=0 > > Galder and I debated the resulting > https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/722 and have concluded > that we want to capture the added methods in > DistributedCompletionService<V> which extends JDK's > CompletionService<V>. The problem is that > DistributedCompletionService<V> is exactly the same as > DistributedExecutorService but without generics twist. So we end up with > essentially duplicate interface. > > Now, ideally we could have DistributedExecutionCompletionService simply > implement DistributedExecutorService and CompletionService but compiler > does not allow us to have generics based > DistributedExecutionCompletionService implementing non-generics based > DistributedExecutorService with the same method definitions. > > Any suggestions? > > Vladimir > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev -- Manik Surtani manik(a)jboss.org twitter.com/maniksurtani Lead, Infinispan http://www.infinispan.org _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev