Re: [jboss-dev] Re: Sep/14th cutoff date for component updates in AS5 Beta3
Brian Stansberry wrote:
Can you clarify a bit why moving to 2.6 will never be possible?
Because of the policy of only including dot release upgrade of component
libraries in AS, or has this changed ? So 2.5.1, 2.5.2 and so on
wouldn't be an issue, but 2.6 would. Correct ?
JBC and ClusterPartition currently call:
Channel.connect(String)
Channel.getState(Address, long)
Channel.getState(Address, String, long)
Is the issue that you're changing the API of the 2 getState calls to
throw an exception instead of returning boolean?
Yes
Is that absolutely necessary?
Yes. But remember, this is a new method, we do *not* overload the
existing connect().
Changes to any other overloaded flavors of connect or getState
don't
matter since we don't call them.
Or is the issue more that the connect+getState stuff will change the
way connecting and state transfer work so much that 2.6 will never be
interoperable with 2.5? Kind of the old "AS 4.0.x forever stuck on
2.2.7" problem.
Yes exactly. My main beef is that we have something stable (API and
implementation wise) that we can include in AS 5, so why not do it ?
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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss - a division of Red Hat