[infinispan-dev] ISPN-118 - DefaultCacheManager already marked as MBean

[Mircea Markus]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:

>
>
> On 09/10/2009 04:42 PM, Mircea Markus wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 9, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>>
>>> </snip>
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>> Wouldn't it be simpler to only have one way of starting the cache
>> (through CM)?
>
> It would be simpler in the sense that there's only one way to start it
> but I'm not sure from an ease of use point of view. Let me explain.
>
> Let's say you wanna a cache called "galdercache" for the 1st time.  
> You'd
> call DefaultCacheManager.start("galdercache"), correct? Now, let's say
> you stop it, so there's no trace of galdercache any more. How do you
> restart it? You have to go and call
> DefaultCacheManager.start("galdercache"). So now, to restart a cache,
> you have to type something and you have to remember the cache name you
> gave it to it.
>
> Wouldn't be easier, from an usability perspective, to go to  
> galdercache
> MBean and call start() on the MBean directly?
>
> This is why I think keeping the MBean around would improve usability.
I see your point. After all, in an non-JMX world, one can do exactly  
the same thing with a Cache.start  *OR* CM.start.
>
>> IMO, after the cache is stopped the system should be in the same  
>> state
>> as before starting it: no jmx registered. This would keep things
>> clearer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 24 Jul 2009, at 09:55, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Re: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-118
>>>>>
>>>>> It turns out that since rev.454, DefaultCacheManager has already
>>>>> been
>>>>> marked as an MBean
>>>>> (http://fisheye.jboss.org/browse/Infinispan/trunk/core/src/main/java/org/infinispan/manager/DefaultCacheManager.java?r=454
>>>>> )
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently, none of the getCache() methods are marked as MBean
>>>>> operations
>>>>> and I wanted to get confirmation on whether it should leave as it
>>>>> is. I
>>>>> mean, in AS6, I suppose people will be able to use the JNDI method
>>>>> to
>>>>> get access to the CacheManager and get the cache from there
>>>>> (http://tinyurl.com/lq688t section 11.2). Anyone running
>>>>> standalone can
>>>>> simply instantiate the cache manager.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>> --
>>>>> Galder Zamarreño
>>>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>>>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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>>>> Manik Surtani
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>>>> Lead, Infinispan
>>>> Lead, JBoss Cache
>>>> http://www.infinispan.org
>>>> http://www.jbosscache.org
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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