[infinispan-dev] Distributed execution framework API - final review

[Pete Muir]

On 14 Jan 2011, at 15:47, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Manik and I agreed on final look of distributed execution framework 
> API[1]. We removed DistributedTask used for migrating 
> DistributedCallable to execution nodes and replaced it with 
> DistributedExecutorService which follows ideas of a familiar 
> ExecutorService from util.concurrent.
> 
> MapReduce is still a beast of its own that can not fit into 
> ExecutorService paradigm but I think we nailed it with a simple and easy 
> to use API. See in particular examples provided.
> 
> 
> The last item Manik and I disagree on is use of DistributedTaskContext. 
> DistributedTaskContext is given to each DistributedCallable once it has 
> migrated to remote node for execution. DistributedTaskContext might 
> evolve and I'd rather keep it in the framework while Manik wants to have 
> a simple setter on DistributedCallable:
> 
> setEnvironment(Cache, K...)

I prefer Manik's design, I generally try to design APIs for known use cases.