[hibernate-dev] Infinispan versions for Hibernate OGM

[Sanne Grinovero]

Hello all,

we generally have been trying to target the versions of Infinispan
provided by the WildFly version we're targeting for compatibility with
a specific OGM release cycle.

I would like to change that, and for example now switch to the latest
Infinispan 8.1.0.Final (rather than the one in WildFly 10 candidate
release, which would be 8.0.2.Final).

Several reasons:

# shall not use the WildFly Infinispan distribution
  in WildFly the specific Infinispan version being integrated is an
implementation detail.
People wanting to use Infinispan directly, or for other means than the
ones addressed by the WildFly clustering features which are based on
Infinispan (but don't expose it), should be encouraged to download the
Infinispan modules from the Infinispan project. We should apply (and
encourage) this practice too.

# pick our own version
  it's obviously nicer for us to reserve ourselves the practical
benefits of being able to pick our own version according to needs,
rather than stick with wathever WildFly requires.

# we might have a need for latest Infinispan
  probably no need to explain ;)
I don't with us to wait for an app-server update cycle when we need an
upstream patch.

# don't aim at a single WildFly version
  while we're currently running integration tests with latest WildFly,
I think it's desirable to use that as a testing bed for the modules we
provide but not as a coupling factor for our dependency matrix.
In other words, let's prepare OGM to be able to produce modules for
different versions of the application servers (and not least other
application servers although that's unrelated).
Not least, the fact that the app server is sticking with some version
shouldn't have an impact to all of our users who have no interest in
this particular appserver at all.

Am I missing any important counter argument?

Thanks,
Sanne