[infinispan-dev] JBoss Marshalling 1.3 series

[David M. Lloyd]

For JBoss Marshalling 1.3, I'm planning on adding a new River protocol 
version (3) and phasing out version 1.  As far as I'm aware, Infinispan is 
using version 2, correct?

By phasing out old versions, I can reduce the number of runtime checks and 
improve performance and maintainability.  However, going forward, I will 
not be removing support for protocol versions which are used in 
widely-deployed versions of projects which use it (Infinispan for one).

Thus, as time goes on, expect me to be pinging you guys about your input on 
keeping or dropping various protocol versions.

For protocol version 3, I'm looking at some or all of the following features:

- Full Javassist proxy serialization support
- Fast serialization of more collection types
     - The JBoss Marshalling "Pair" type
     - JDK 6 collection types (Deque, NavigableSet/NavigableMap and their 
implementations)
     - More collection utility wrapper types, probably including (but not 
limited to):
         - Collections.checked*()
         - Collections.asLifoQueue()
         - Collections.nCopies()
         - Collections.newSetFromMap()
         - Collections.reverseOrder(*)

Please speak up if there are other features that you'd like to see.

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- DML ☍