[infinispan-dev] Refactoring API and Commons

Hi all, I've been looking into refactoring certain interfaces and common classes as part of https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1490 I have come across a couple of snags (more will come I'm sure). Firstly all modules use org.infinispan.util.logging.LoggingFactory to get a logger. Unfortunately the logger in question implements the org.infinispan.util.logging.Log interface which contains a ton of logging methods mostly related to core functionality, and therefore irrelevant for things such as the remote APIs. My suggestion here is that each module either uses a specialized LoggingFactory or create a common one which returns implementations of BasicLogger (which is the root interface of our Logs). Another one is related to org.infinispan.util.FileLookupFactory which references OSGi classes, even though the org.osgi dependency is marked as optional in the infinispan-core POM. In my opinion the OsgiFileLookup should be put in an external class and loaded via reflection so that we don't get NoClassDefFoundErrors. I've also introduced at the API level a BasicCache<K,V> which now Cache<K,V> extends. BasicCache<K,V> knows nothing about Lifecycle, Listenable, AdvancedCache, Configuration, eviction, batching and is intended to be the base for the RemoteCache<K,V> interface. Suggestions, recommendations, etc. Tristan