[infinispan-dev] Infinispan 8 development begins

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