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

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 9 February 2012 15:37, Bela Ban <bban at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 2/9/12 3:24 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>> On 9 February 2012 14:09, Bela Ban<bban at redhat.com>  wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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.
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> There are 2 tests in JGroups: MuxRpcDispatcherTest and
> MuxMessageDispatcherTest, both written by PaulF.

Thanks! But is this the same implementation used by AS7 ? I had
understood that there where two, and I would like to know specifically
how to use the (already muxed) channel provided by the application
server if I look it up from JNDI, so to have a way for applications to
reuse the already started JGroups instance.

Sanne