[infinispan-dev] [Discussion] TimeService implementation

[Mircea Markus]

On 3 May 2013, at 11:46, Galder Zamarreño wrote:

> On May 2, 2013, at 7:01 PM, Pedro Ruivo <pedro at infinispan.org> wrote:
> 
>>>> When recovery is enabled, the recovery manager creates a second cache.
>>>> Someone may want to replace the Clock/TimeService for the "normal" cache
>>>> and left the default implementation in the "recovery" cache.
>>> 
>>> ^ Why would an end-user want to replace the Clock/TimeService?
>>> 
>>> Remember what I said in my previous email: I can see someone changing the service implementation for testing reasons, and in that case, a global clock/timer service that's swapable via system property would work just fine IMO.
>> 
>> I don't know. I'm being pessimist and assuming that someone in the world 
>> as a dark use case and needs to replace the service.
> 
> ^ We already have quite a big configuration… we should think twice about adding more stuff… :)
+1. on top of that we can always add it to config if needed, harder to remove it.

Cheers,
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Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)