[infinispan-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (ISPN-4919) Configuration templates

Configuration templates ----------------------- Key: ISPN-4919 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-4919 Project: Infinispan Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Configuration Reporter: Tristan Tarrant Assignee: Tristan Tarrant Currently there is a 1:1 relationship between configuration and named caches. While the programmatic API does have the ability to .read() an existing configuration to create a new one, the declarative config does not. We should introduce the concept of configuration inheritance, e.g.: {code} <local-cache name="eviction-cache"> <eviction strategy="LIRS" maxEntries="10000"/> </local-cache> <local-cache name="mycache" template="eviction-cache" /> {code} Possibly, cache templates should be made "abstract" so that they cannot be instantiated as named caches directly, e.g.: {code} <local-cache name="eviction-cache" abstract="true"> ... </local-cache> {code}