<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 May 2016, at 13:33, Galder Zamarreño <<a href="mailto:galder@redhat.com" class="">galder@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">In the past there has been talk of representing a connection to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Infinispan using a URL, in particular for HotRod.<br class="">The Hibernate OGM team is now working on adding NoSQL datasources to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">WildFly, and they've asked for they should represent connections to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">various of these.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">^ What's this trying to solve exactly?</span></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>The reasoning is as follows in a nutshell.<br class=""><div class="">If Infinispan wants to be treated as a database, it needs to be friendly towards its client and offer a proper simple access. A driver + a URL scheme is a common scheme across the RDBMS and NoSQL space these days.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we have this, then Wildfly users can start separating the data source configuration from their application deployment like they have been able to for RDBMSes (or other JCA deployment AFAIR).</div><div class="">The main difference is that we will not return javax.sql.DataSource objects but the natural native object of the driver. We are setting these approaches in Wildfly for various NoSQL solutions already. Infinispan is the remaining outlier.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Emmanuel</div></body></html>