[jbosscache-dev] Naming discussion

[Ben Wang]

Manik,

I am not sure what is "more correct" though? To me, I can see right away that PojoCache is a feature, but have a hard time to tell the difference between it and Cache without explaining it in details. I don't know what others think but it doesn't convey the right functionality that is a HasMap-like "reference" cache.

Of course, detailed explanation will work but key is to first time user, will this create confusion or not?

-Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Manik Surtani [mailto:manik at jboss.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 9:00 PM
To: Ben Wang
Cc: jbosscache-dev at lists.jboss.org
Subject: Re: [jbosscache-dev] Naming discussion



On 11 Aug 2006, at 12:17, Ben Wang wrote:

> Guys (and Manik, secifically),
>
> I have been in the process of updating the PojoCache documentation for 
> 2.0 release. One thing that came up that I'd like to solicit some 
> inputs. As we all agreed that PojoCache will still be housed under 
> JBoss Cache (alhtough may have two separate distributions).
> That is, JBoss Cache will have two cache libararies per se. Now we 
> know one component is PojoCache. How do we call the other component 
> (with Cache implementation)? We used to call it TreeCache that is more 
> distinguished than simply Cache, IMO.

I agree that Cache vs. PojoCache is less distinct than TreeCache vs.  
PojoCache, but at the end of the day we're trying to define a product that does a single task of caching data.  As you said, PojoCache builds on top of this to add Pojo/AOP based features, so one may argue that Cache vs. PojoCache, while being less distinct, is in fact more correct.

>
> FYI, in 2.0, PojoCache will use a delegate to the Cache 
> implementation. Actually, there will be two seprate configuration xml 
> files. One is for the Cache and the other for PojoCache. So we can say 
> PojoCache is a layer on top but not a sub-class anymore.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ben
>
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