From: Guillermo GARCIA OCHOA <do-not-reply(a)jboss.com&gt; Subject: [Infinispan] - Re: Global/Normalized timestamp generator Date: July 11, 2012 10:57:38 AM GMT+03:00 To: Galder Zamarreño <galder.zamarreno(a)redhat.com&gt; JBoss Community Re: Global/Normalized timestamp generator created by Guillermo GARCIA OCHOA in Infinispan - View the full discussion I strongly disagree with you ... A cluster should have a normalized timestamps generator for many use cases. One example Message producer/consumer: Almost all the implementations of this kind of patterns needs a normalized timestamps to know the order of processing of the distributed queue (this means several share-nothing queues). One real case scenario: Transaction processor: you have several servers handling business transactions, but to be faster do you not centralize all these transaction in the same queue, but in several ones. Then you can consume those queues to really process this sorted by 'creation timestamps'. I know there is a lot of way to do this, but timestamps are widely used in distributed environments. Please check this: A plugin for ActiveMQ http://activemq.apache.org/timestampplugin.html In Oracle Coherence you can get this normalized timestamps with CacheFactory.ensureCluster().getTimeMillis() Dont you think that this is important enough to be added to the roadmap? Is not blocker, but I think that this is a 'must have' feature. Reply to this message by going to Community Start a new discussion in Infinispan at Community