[infinispan-dev] JBoss Marshalling 1.3 series

[Galder Zamarreno]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:35:38 +0100, David M. Lloyd  
<david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/02/2010 05:06 AM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:13:39 +0100, David M. Lloyd  
>> <david.lloyd at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> We use default version, which afaik is indeed 2 in 1.2.0.GA.
>
> OK, so you're not specifying 2 explicitly?  Or are you negotiating the  
> version?  Because for 1.3, the default version will change to 3, so an  
> instance running with JBMAR 1.2 won't be able to read messages written  
> by an instance running with JBMAR 1.3 by default then.  You might want  
> to ensure that you've got a way to set the version somehow, especially  
> as JBossAS 6 will ship with a JBMAR 1.3.something.

Ok, makes sense. I'll explicitly set it to 2. When we move to Infinispan  
5.x, we can maybe move it up to 3 which by then JBMAR 1.3 will likely be  
out.

>
>>> - Full Javassist proxy serialization support
>>> - Fast serialization of more collection types
>>>       - The JBoss Marshalling "Pair" type
>>
>> What's this pair type?
>
> It's a simple serializable class which holds two values of different  
> types.   It uses generics for type-safety as well; each value may be of  
> a different type.  Amazingly handy. :)

So that's a serializable tuple then :).

>
>> Nothing specific comes to my mind right now but I'll keep it mind in  
>> case
>> anything pops up.
>
> Thanks!
>


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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache