[infinispan-dev] [ISPN-6] (Infinispan cache provider for Hibernate) Remaining TODOs, notes and questions

[Brian Stansberry]

On 08/13/2009 06:27 AM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> Of my original email, there's a section that I don't think has been
> answered yet
>
> On 08/04/2009 10:37 AM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>> Finally, a question to the list, specially for Brian/Steve who worked on
>> the JBC2/3 integration layer:
>>
>> - Do we need a similar timestamp region local cache implementation for
>> an ISPN based cache provider?
>>
>> Cheers,
>
> This question focuses on the TimestampsRegionImpl (and potentially
> ClusteredConcurrentTimestampsRegionImpl) work done for JBC 2.x/3.x
> integration layer. Is there a need for a similar region implementation
> for Infinispan? I'm not sure I fully understand the need for
> TimestampsRegionImpl to manage this local cache.
>

Timestamps caching has different semantics than the other types, hence 
the different region impl. I don't know any reason why that wouldn't be 
the case with Infinispan.

It's not a "local cache"?  It's replicated.

> Talking about timestamps, I assume that no evictions should ever happen
> for the timestamps cache and this is something that could be validated
> on startup, that eviction strategy is NONE.
>

+1.

> Cheers,


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