Provide API to allow multiple callers to safely call activateRegion() . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBCACHE-404 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCACHE-404 Project: JBoss Cache Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Affects Versions: 1.2.4SP1, 1.2.4 Reporter: Brian Stansberry Assigned To: Brian Stansberry Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.0.0.BETA2 If a caller calls activateRegion() and the region is already active, they will get a RegionNotEmptyException. Need to add an API to make it easy for use cases where multiple callers may want to activate the same region. Use case for this is ClusteredSSO. Multiple ClusteredSSO valves can be running in the same server; all share the /SSO region. The TreeCache is shared with session replication, so the activateRegion API needs to be used. Currently it catches the RegionNotEmptyException, but I don't like this in the ClusteredSSO code. Possibilities: 1) Add an isRegionActive() method, callers can check first. But this can lead to race conditions. 2) Overload the activateRegion method with a version that won't throw the RegionNotEmptyException. Don't want to get rid of the RegionNotEmptyException, as in many uses cases (e.g. session repl) the region should not have data; if it does that's an error condition the application should know about.