Re: [infinispan-dev] design for cluster events (wiki page)

On 10/31/13 1:05 PM, Mircea Markus wrote: > > On Oct 31, 2013, at 7:10 AM, Bela Ban <bban(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> Just to clarify, can you comment on whether the statements below are true ? >> >> #1 When mode=repl is used, the event itself is never broadcast; it is >> always local and no communication is needed > > yes. for replicated caches we should handle this as a local listener. > >> >> #2 when mode=dist, is the event broadcast synchronously or >> asynchronously, can this be configured ? I think it doesn't make sense >> to broadcast the event synchronously in dist-async, for instance. > > there are two levels of asynchronicity: > - the cluster is configured to be asyn > - the listeners can be configured to be notified in an async thread (@Listener async=true) > In both situations the notification from the event should be broadcasted asynchronously Ah, ok, so the events are *always* async ?

+1 in general, but there's a point where you mentioned ordering, and ordering might get destroyed if you switch to async.