[infinispan-dev] support for extending Infinispan

[Bela Ban]

Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> Maybe it could be possible to reserve some command numbers for
> experiments? Or allow pluggable invocations?
> I'd especially love an API to send a specific method with parameters
> (like RMI) to the node owning a specific key - last time I mentioned
> this need Bela mentioned a new sort of multiplexer to reuse the
> JGroups channel, but at that time this was yet to be written.

Paul Ferraro wrote it, it's called 
org.jgroups.blocks.mux.MuxRpcDispatcher, and the corresponding unit test 
is MuxRpcDispatcherTest; it shows you how to use it. The benefit is that 
it can reuse the same JGroups channel which Infinispan uses.

Take a look at it and see if this can be used...

> A super cool feature would be for example to start Hibernate Search's
> JGroups backend on the same channel as Infinispan, having for example
> all data sent to the one machine having a specific key.
>
> Another extensibility I wish I had is to be able to plug my own
> marshaller/externalizer (also had a thread about it).
-- 
Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss