Re: [infinispan-dev] Management of shared caches

On Dec 16, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Manik Surtani wrote: > On 16 Dec 2009, at 11:40, Mircea Markus wrote: >> On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Manik Surtani wrote: >>> On 15 Dec 2009, at 20:16, Brian Stansberry wrote: >>> >>>> On 12/14/2009 01:12 PM, Mircea Markus wrote: >>>>> yep, that's a good point indeed. >>>>> Is there any other thing than reference counting that this release >>>>> method would do? >>>> >>>> The only other thing the AS impl of the JBC CacheManager[1] >>>> releaseCache >>>> does is deregistration from JMX. But I believe that's already >>>> handled in >>>> Infinispan. >>>> >>>> OT, there are a couple other things [1] does: >>>> >>>> 1) Supports aliasing of configuratio names; I just created >>>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-316 for that. >>> >>> Yes, nice one - there will be some API impact though, how would one >>> submit an alias map? I wouldn't want injection to be the only path here. >> Coherence supports regexp for defining cache names. I guess that >> would also solve ISPN-316, be a more generic solution and also allow >> better migration from coherence. This won't work for runtime >> aliasing, not sure we'll be able to do this as well. > > Regexps != aliases, although we could support both. At least for statically configured aliases (Brian, is that your scenario?) regexp cache names include the alias functionally. E.g. name="someName | theAlias | otherAlias" is a regexp that accommodates aliasing (and more). >