Re: [jbosscache-dev] JBCACHE-471 - Handling JGroups MERGE
Manik Surtani wrote:
On 19 Mar 2008, at 19:26, Brian Stansberry wrote:
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> What's your gut feel on whether this will happen for 2.2?
I think it's possible if that's where we set our sights. At the end of
the day, we'd include an interface and an adapter with no-op methods,
and if people stick to using the adapter, the interface in question can
later be enhanced for 3.x if need be with more sophisticated overloaded
callbacks, to create more sophisticated handlers.
In terms of my preference, I'd *like* to get it out for 2.2 to give the
community more time to play with it, write handlers, etc., and help
shape a more formal interface in 3.x. Perhaps it could be marked as a
"preview" feature, prone to change/enhancements in 3.x?
That certainly takes some of the pressure off the interface discussion.
:-) As long as it's "preview" in the sense of "we might change this a
lot in 3.x" and not in the sense of "these 2 impls we provide are not
quite production ready." If it's the latter, probably not worth doing.
In any case, I only see us writing the 2 simplest handlers in the
first
go, with more complex, intelligent merging to come later.
Cheers
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Manik Surtani
Lead, JBoss Cache
manik(a)jboss.org
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Brian Stansberry
Lead, AS Clustering
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
brian.stansberry(a)redhat.com