[infinispan-dev] Uber client, which means ALPN investigation

[Sebastian Laskawiec]

Maybe a polyglot client?

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at infinispan.org>
wrote:

> Not my area of expertise, so forgive me if I give no technical feedback..
>
> So, quite off-topic:
> please let's not call it "Uber Client". I've tried it, but I'm still
> waiting for my car ride to appear :) Is it always this slow?
>
> On 27 July 2016 at 07:38, Sebastian Laskawiec <slaskawi at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hey guys!
> >
> > Recently I've been looking into ALPN support [1] and studying RFC [2] as
> > well as JEP [3]. In short, the Application Layer Protocol Negotiation -
> > allows the server and the client to agree which protocol shall be used
> after
> > TLS handshake. It will be supported out of the box in JDK9. For JDK8 you
> > need a special Jetty Java agent [4].
> >
> > With ALPN we could build an Uber Client, which would be able to support
> many
> > protocols at the same time (REST, HTTP/2, Hot Rod). We should be able to
> > select the protocol during client initialization as well as renegotiate
> > existing connection. This could be very convenient for situations when
> > connecting to multiple Hot Rod servers and some of them are accessible
> using
> > Hot Rod (the same DC or the same Cloud tenant) and some connections need
> to
> > get through a firewall (HTTP/2, REST).
> >
> > Of course implementing this requires major refactoring in the server
> > endpoint as well as in the client. Possibly this is something for
> Infinispan
> > 10 :)
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sebastian
> >
> > [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-6899
> > [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7301
> > [3] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/244
> > [4] https://github.com/jetty-project/jetty-alpn
> >
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