ClusterRegistry as a service cache provider ------------------------------------------- Key: ISPN-5012 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-5012 Project: Infinispan Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Core Reporter: Tristan Tarrant Assignee: Tristan Tarrant Fix For: 7.2.0.CR1 The ClusterRegistry is currently a volatile, replicated cache with a composite key and it does not serve the original purpose for which it was built. It should be refactored to be a service cache factory with a builder API based on desired features and a NamingStrategy so that we can have "well-known" caches as well as temporary caches. It should also be possible to use the cache dependency mechanism to "chain" service cache lifecycles to other caches. Here's an example API (not a real example): RegistryBuilder builder = registry.getBuilder(); builder.persistent().clustered().dependsOn(Cache<?,?> cache).namingStrategy(new StaticCacheNamingStrategy("___protobuf_metadata")) This registry would be able to provide caches to the following use cases: - protobuf schemas - hotrod topology - security acl - map/reduce work caches - index caches - etc.