[jbosscache-dev] JBCACHE-471 - Handling JGroups MERGE

[Brian Stansberry]

Manik Surtani wrote:
> 
> On 19 Mar 2008, at 17:26, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>> Bela Ban wrote:
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>>> I don't think we have thought hard enough about all use cases we 
>>> might implement, or at least consider for the design of the 
>>> interface. Maybe we need to brainstorm about this at our next 
>>> clustering conf call ?
>>
>> Where is this on our priority list? Is this something we are going to 
>> actually do over the next 3-4 months? Or are we discussing something 
>> that's not going to happen for a long time?
> 
> I'm thinking if we can come up with a valid interface quick enough (over 
> the next week or two) I'd put it in 2.2.0 along with the "easy" 
> implementations (evict, shutdown).  The more interesting implementations 
> of MergeHandlers can (a) come later, or (b) be implemented by the client 
> if they are in a rush for it.
> 
> If we can't come up with a satisfactory interface in the next 2 weeks 
> I'll defer this for 3.x.
> 

OK, I'll start thinking more about this then. I've been just vaguely 
following this thread until my name started popping up.

What's your gut feel on whether this will happen for 2.2?

> Cheers,
> -- 
> Manik Surtani
> Lead, JBoss Cache
> manik at jboss.org
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Brian Stansberry
Lead, AS Clustering
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
brian.stansberry at redhat.com