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

[Michael Neale]

FWIW, in management tools like JON/RHQ etc, its not really that much
fun for Mbeans to suddenly disappear... often nicer to change some
value on them and leave them around for the console/tools to deal
with.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Mircea Markus <mircea.markus at jboss.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>>>>> manik at jboss.org
>>>>> Lead, Infinispan
>>>>> Lead, JBoss Cache
>>>>> http://www.infinispan.org
>>>>> http://www.jbosscache.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Galder Zamarreño
>>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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>> Galder Zamarreño
>> Sr. Software Engineer
>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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