[infinispan-dev] JGroups 4.0.0.Alpha1

[Paul Ferraro]

The problem isn't modifying the WF API to return a narrower type. We
can certainly do that. The problem is that existing applications
expect a org.wildfly.clustering.jgroups.ChannelFactory to return an
org.jgroups.Channel.  When they upgrade to WF11, they should get a
deprecation warning, not a NoClassDefFoundError. Eventually, we can
break their application, as they would have been sufficiently warned
already.  I'm sure there are JGroups users that will be in the same
boat.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Bela Ban <bban at redhat.com> wrote:
> Oh shoot, didn't know Channel was referenced directly!
>
> I assume you're upgrading JGroups only on a new major version of Wildfly,
> aren't you? Then, returning a JChannel instead of a Channel shouldn't be an
> issue, should it?
>
>
> On 23/08/16 16:01, Paul Ferraro wrote:
>>
>> Bela,
>>
>> Are you sure you want to drop the Channel interface [1] without any
>> deprecation?  WildFly references the Channel interface in public user
>> API [1].  I can certainly narrow the type for WF11, but this will
>> break user applications unexpectedly.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-2018
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/blob/master/clustering/jgroups/api/src/main/java/org/wildfly/clustering/jgroups/ChannelFactory.java
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Bela Ban <bban at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Most API changes have been done, 12 issues left. I expect the final
>>> release
>>> in October.
>>>
>>> Note that JGroups-4.0.0-SNAPSHOT is also generated (on every change,
>>> IIRC).
>>>
>>> Feedback appreciated!
>>>
>>> [1] http://belaban.blogspot.ch/2016/08/jgroups-400alpha1-released.html
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org)
>>>
>
> --
> Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org)
>