[infinispan-dev] Infinispan 8 development begins

[Tristan Tarrant]

Hi all,

now that Infinispan 7.2.0.Final is out I want to outline the plans for 
the future.

Infinispan 8.x will bring many new features and internal refactoring and 
improvements. We will be moving to Java 8 to take advantage of the new 
language and JDK features such as lambdas, CompletableFuture, Optional, 
etc. We will finally move our core to a reactive design so to reduce 
resource usage and increase performance. We will be adding a monitoring 
and management console built into our server. We will be enhancing 
everything from querying, indexing, remote protocols, etc. We will be 
integrating with Apache Spark and OpenShift. For more details check out 
our roadmap @ http://infinispan.org/roadmap/

Since the scope of things we want to do during the 8.x cycle is quite 
large, it is altogether possible that 8.0 will be initially tagged as 
"experimental", giving us time to iron out any issues during the 8.1 
release cycle. However, we will do our best to make 8.0 usable from the 
get-go.
We will be maintaining the 7.2.x branch for quite a while.

Let's hack !

Tristan
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Tristan Tarrant
Infinispan Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat