[infinispan-dev] HitchHikerExecutor

[Bela Ban]

Good idea, same as what I want to do in JGroups with PIGGYBACK

Manik Surtani wrote:
> This is something Adrian came up with while on IRC yesterday:
>
>     https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-58
>
> This is an executor that does not spawn new threads, but instead 
> queues up tasks, adds an interceptor to the chain, and "hijacks" 
> process threads to execute queued runnables.
>
> The purpose of this is so that Infinispan plays nice in runtimes that 
> restrict the spawning of threads, such as Google's App Engine.
>
> I added this as a JIRA for now, but after sleeping on it, I think this 
> is unnecessary.  In-process executors could be used for now, utilising 
> the caller thread to execute the runnable, and in future GAE-specific 
> executors to delegate to the upcoming Task Queue API [1].  In fact, 
> this could be a part of a GAE compatibility module which may include a 
> cache store that uses the app engine data store, possibly via JPA [2].
>
> WDYT?
>
> Cheers
> Manik
>
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=109
> [2] http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/usingjpa.html
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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
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