[hibernate-dev] Deprecating or removing entirely HashtableCacheProvider?

Steve Ebersole steve at hibernate.org
Wed Jun 8 10:49:06 EDT 2011


Yeah, I have spoken with them about it via email as well, so they are 
aware of it.


On 06/08/2011 09:47 AM, Strong Liu wrote:
>
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>
>> The only use case I am really interested in for "simple map based"
>> caching is the test suite.  Its the whole reason I did not do the things
>> Strong and I discussed on the other thread already.
>>
>> Perhaps we move "simple map based" caching impl to the hibernate-testing
>> module?  The the test suite can continue to use it but we have
>> explicitly published the intent.
>
> actually this was the next question i was going to ask :D
> I have started on this (fyi http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6297), but i can't make it into today's release.
> so, if there is no other objection, i will move the concurrent hash map based 2l cache impl into testing module.
>
> btw, the ehcache integration is broken due to the cache spi change, the RegionFactory impl in ehcache project still uses old hibernate package, i have filed them a jira.
>
>>
>> And yes I totally agree that we should be driving folks to proper cache
>> integrations, namely the infinispan and/or ehcache integrations.  The
>> others (oscache, swarmcache, etc) have been removed already.
>>
>>
>> On 06/08/2011 07:26 AM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>> I always try to understand what's the main reason motivating people to
>>> use it. Likely the zero dependencies, "let's just try one" ?
>>>
>>> We could bake a very simple implementation based as you say on a
>>> ConcurrentHashMap, and implement a simple eviction is simple. But I'm
>>> afraid that offering such a feature would drive away from proper
>>> implementations, which we should encourage to use.
>>>
>>> Sanne
>>>
>>> 2011/6/8 Emmanuel Bernard<emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
>>>> I always die a little when I see someone using HashtableCacheProvider.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think of removing it entirely. Worse case, we could provide an implementation that is backed by ConcurrentHashMap but even with that, we would get no eviction policy etc.
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