[jbosscache-dev] Let's make 3.0 backwards compatible

[Manik Surtani]

On 18 Aug 2008, at 19:37, Bela Ban wrote:

> +100. Do you suggest a bridge/adapter approach ?

This could be an alternate approach.  We are talking about an adapter  
for making 2.x and 3.x compatible with 1.x interfaces; it would be  
much easier to do the same to make 3.x compatible with 2.x.   
Potentially helps to keep the core 3.x APIs clean so if people want to  
use 3.x directly they have a chance to use cleaner APIs.

The drawback is that everyone uses the adapter and never the cache  
directly, which beats the purpose of the new APIs altogether.

Thoughts?
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Manik Surtani
Lead, JBoss Cache
manik at jboss.org