[jboss-as7-dev] AS7-4007 missing Infinispan dependency for clustered JPA second level cache

[David M. Lloyd]

On 03/06/2012 09:21 AM, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
> This reminds me that we had a discussion about this a few months back: http://goo.gl/DJLhB
>
> At the time, it wasn't clear whether you can use ModularClassResolver in a non-module env. Seems like it's not possible.
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> So, one option is to have a class resolver lookup class, or similar so that AS7 can pass us the right ClassResolver.
>
> There might a quicker option here though:
> - Extend VersionAwareMarshaller (http://goo.gl/bu8CF) and provide a variant of JBossMarshaller (http://goo.gl/o9Ro3) in Infinispan (this requires JBossMarshaller to be made non-final)
> - Override JBossMarshaller.inject(), call super.inject() and then call baseCfg.setClassResolver(…)
> - This would require that the VersionAwareMarshaller extension be passed the ModuleLoader that ModularClassResolver requires.
> - Configure Infinispan with this new marshaller, via SerializationConfiguration. Thankfully you can now pass an instance of the marshaller to it, so no need to do any magic ModuleLoader lookup from the VersionAwareMarshaller extension.
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> Scott, other than the change in JBossMarshaller to be made non-final, the rest can built on AS7. Wanna have a go? Ping me on IRC if you need help.
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> Cheers,
>
> p.s. Silly question, how come this issue is not present in HTTP session replication use case or EJB3 SFSB?

It actually is present anywhere we're using Infinispan (I think).  It 
just hasn't blown up yet anywhere public (in this case it's a 90% 
effective solution versus a 100% effective solution).


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> On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:07 PM, Scott Marlow wrote:
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>> Galder,
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>> I'm trying to identify the right fix for addressing AS7-4007.  I started a clustered second level cache test that currently fails since Infinispan isn't on the test application classpath.
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>> The exception call stack that I'm getting is shown here http://pastie.org/3503803.
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>> I would like to discuss how we can address AS7-4007 (either on email or IRC).
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>> Initially, I worked around this by ensuring that the infinispan module is available in the test application classpath (https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/commit/31f3547960775dac88275447253fdae942f952b9#L0R40).  The hack was to export the Infinispan module when the Hibernate module is brought into an application.  This covered both JPA and Hibernate native applications, however it exports into every other module that references the Hibernate module (increasing the time that it takes to link the Hibernate module into other modules).  There are other problems with requiring Infinipan to be in the application classpath (see https://community.jboss.org/wiki/ModularSerialization).
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>> I would like to better understand the alternatives (both short term and long term) to address AS7-4007 and issues like it.  Perhaps by using MarshallingConfiguration.setClassResolver() to pass a ModuleClassResolver to be used with Infinispan marshalling/unmarshalling.  Is that currently configurable with Infinispan?
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>> Paul Ferraro, David Lloyd and myself chatted on irc briefly about this a few days ago (see http://pastie.org/3528553).
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>> https://github.com/dmlloyd/jboss-marshalling/blob/master/api/src/main/java/org/jboss/marshalling/ModularClassResolver.java contains the source for the ModularClassResolver class that David referred to (as well as the ModularSerialization article linked above).
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>> Scott
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> Galder Zamarreño
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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