Handle JGroups MERGE -------------------- Key: JBCACHE-471 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCACHE-471 Project: JBoss Cache Issue Type: Task Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Affects Versions: 1.2.4 Reporter: Manik Surtani Assigned To: Manik Surtani Fix For: 2.2.0.GA When JGroups needs to do a merge due to a temporary break in the group structure, JGroups does not handle the merging of data. This is usually left up to the application to handle. JBossCache should support pluggable merge policies, we could provide some simple merge policies and allow users to write their own. 1. Evict on merge policy - when a merge occurs, evict the entire in-memory state. Useful for Hibernate or when used with a shared cache loader. 2. Other merge algos ... ?