[infinispan-dev] Design session today

[Mircea Markus]

On 9 Aug 2013, at 18:14, Dennis Reed <dereed at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks Dennis, definitely a good argument for splitting them then!

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

Cheers,
-- 
Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)