Re: [infinispan-dev] Evaluating Infinispan

On 30 Sep 2009, at 15:00, Krzysztof Sobolewski wrote: > Dnia piątek 25 wrzesień 2009 o 15:18:45 Manik Surtani napisał(a): > >>> Yeah, it's a kind of love-hate relationship. I personally prefer to >>> have them >>> everywhere (and sometimes come up with really bizarre contraptions). >>> At least >>> one prominent book writer thought once I was an expert on the >>> topic ;) >> >> I used to have them everywhere in JBC and IMO it made the internal >> code very inflexible as everything needed to be parameterized in very >> unnecessary ways. > > It's more of a chore than inflexibility, because the types must > match anyway, > generics or not. But the declarations spread like a wildfire. Give > me [more] > type inference and type aliases and I'm almost happy :) Yeah JDK7 is making some progress there with type inferences for parameters, but that's just a half-hearted effort IMO. > Or maybe it's better > to switch to Scala. Watch this space.  ;)  (And the server/rest module in Infinispan trunk, for example) > >>> I actually read about it on your blog and assumed that it's a public >>> API :) I >>> thought I could use it to solve some problems relating to lack of >>> tree >>> structure (or, more specifically, lack of getChildrenNames()). >> >> In future it is something we may make public.  But needs some more >> thought before it is made public, as you can imagine.  :) > > I can see you changed some things already (and the TreeCache.getCache > () > thing). Unfortunately currently I have some other things to do than > porting to > Infinispan, but I'll get back to it some day :) Yes, this has changed in trunk, along with the bugs reported around the Tree API.  These will make it in another beta very soon. Cheers -- Manik Surtani manik(a)jboss.org Lead, Infinispan Lead, JBoss Cache http://www.infinispan.org http://www.jbosscache.org _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev