[infinispan-dev] Removing Infinispan dependency on the Hibernate-Infinispan module in 4.x

[Bela Ban]

On 2/9/12 3:24 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> On 9 February 2012 14:09, Bela Ban<bban at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/9/12 3:01 PM, Dan Berindei wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Manik Surtani<manik at jboss.org>  Â wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 9 Feb 2012, at 09:53, Dan Berindei wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The JGroups channel you get from JGroupsTransport.getChannel() can be
>>>> used only by Infinispan.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why? Â If we changed our CommandAwareRpcDispatcher to ignore messages that
>>>> contain a certain header (say, INFINISPAN_IGNORE), then that channel can be
>>>> reused as long as the header is used on all messages.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But how would you install the handler on the receiving end? You'd
>>> still need a mechanism to register the Hibernate handler with our
>>> CommandAwareRpcDispatcher...
>>>
>>> I think it's simpler the other way around: create the channel outside
>>> Infinispan, register your own receiver, and only pass to Infinispan
>>> the messages that don't contain a certain header - kind of what the
>>> muxing channel in AS7 does.
>>
>> Yes, this is already done in the MuxUpHandler written by Paul. If we can
>> grab the JChannel, we can always insert ourselves into the Muxer, and
>> thus invoke RPCs
>
> Is there an example of how I could use that (for a different problem) ?
> Or pointers to the source code or tests would be appreciated as well.


There are 2 tests in JGroups: MuxRpcDispatcherTest and 
MuxMessageDispatcherTest, both written by PaulF.

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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups (http://www.jgroups.org)
JBoss / Red Hat