[infinispan-dev] ISPN-185: Injecting a running JGroups channel into Infinispan

[Galder Zamarreno]

Actually, forget what I said.

I was assuming JGroupsTransport being a lot simpler than what really is.

On 09/30/2009 12:07 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>
> On 09/29/2009 04:55 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>> </snip>
>>
>> Transport [2] is an interface that wraps up the JGroups Channel (among
>> other things), and the default (only?) implementation so far is the
>> JGroupsTransport [3].  Now one thing we can do to support channel
>> injection is to actually support Transport injection.  This way a
>> Transport can be constructed (simple constructor), the JGroups channel
>> set, and the transport passed in to a GlobalConfiguration instance
>> (setter TBD), which is then in turn passed to a DefaultCacheManager
>> constructor [4].
>>
>> The problem with this approach though, is that it will only work for
>> programmatic configurations.  To support declarative configurations as
>> well, we'd need to override the relevant DefaultCacheManager
>> constructors [5] [6] [7] [8] to accept a Transport as well.  But this
>> pollutes the CacheManager API, in my opinion.
>>
>> So, how important is it that a running channel is used to override
>> something defined in XML?
>
> Hmmmm, not sure I understand what you mean by declarative configurations
> here. I'd imagine AS, apart from being able to provide it's own
> Transport programatically, it could do do something like this in the
> Infinispan configurations running on AS:
>
> <transport transportClass="org.jboss.as.infinispan.JGroupsTransport"
> ...
>
> And within that implementation, lookup the JGroups transport in AS and
> return what the Transport interface mandates.
>
> The above example is what I understand by declarative.
>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Manik
>>
>> [1] https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-185
>> [2] http://docs.jboss.org/infinispan/4.0/apidocs/org/infinispan/remoting/transport/Transport.html
>> [3] http://fisheye.jboss.org/browse/Infinispan/trunk/core/src/main/java/org/infinispan/remoting/transport/jgroups/JGroupsTransport.java?r=883
>> [4] http://bit.ly/3roPkl
>> [5] http://bit.ly/vDtwa
>> [6] http://bit.ly/2FhsUn
>> [7] http://bit.ly/7YC8d
>> [8] http://bit.ly/2rgtyP
>>
>> --
>> Manik Surtani
>> manik at jboss.org
>> Lead, Infinispan
>> Lead, JBoss Cache
>> http://www.infinispan.org
>> http://www.jbosscache.org
>>
>>
>>
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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache