[infinispan-dev] Design session today

[Dennis Reed]

On 08/09/2013 07:55 AM, Mircea Markus wrote:
> The only argument I found was that's the way the spec does it :-) I 
> think CacheLoader + CacheWriter is a nice OOP design, but is rather 
> theoretical. In all external users scenarios I know, the interaction 
> with the store is read+write so most of the people thing about a store 
> along this lines. Having a distinction between loads and stores seems 
> unnatural and creates confusion. For the few that only need a loader 
> they can simply leave the store() empty - as simple as that.

I have seen some users with read-only CacheLoaders, so it's not just 
theoretical.

But I do agree that just not implementing the store methods shouldn't be 
a big issue for this use case.

-Dennis