[infinispan-dev] Redesigning CacheStore and CacheLoader SPIs

[Mircea Markus]

On 2 Apr 2012, at 14:02, Tristan Tarrant wrote:

> I dislike the current way of configuring stores via <property>. As part of my work for ISPN-1821 I will also introduce the ability for stores to provide their own configuration parsers so that we can have more readable schemas.
That would be quite nice, as the property-based approach is very error prone. Curious how you're going to support 'dynamic' xml snippets,through some xml name spaces perhaps?
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> Participating in JTA is obviously high on the desired list, and I'd also expose some form of batching so that intelligent cache-store can colaesce operations together for better performance.
that's a big one indeed. JTA support won't be available for all stores, e.g. cloud cache store.   
Mind detailing a bit on the batching/colaesce functionality you have in mind? 
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> Maybe the ability to introduce some form of compression for values (if over a certain size threshold).
I don't think that would require a API change, as this sort of behaviour seem to be orthogonal and can be handled to a wrapper CacheStore implementation, very much like the AsyncCache store. Might require a configuration change though. Also I think this is a good task for an external contributor.