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

[Bela Ban]

No, I think people will switch to the new API, because the indirection 
via the bridge will cost them some perf. But the advantage of a 2.x 
compatible API for 3.x is that they can do the switch at their own leisure

Manik Surtani wrote:
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> On 18 Aug 2008, at 19:37, Bela Ban wrote:
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>> +100. Do you suggest a bridge/adapter approach ?
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> 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.
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> The drawback is that everyone uses the adapter and never the cache 
> directly, which beats the purpose of the new APIs altogether.
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> Thoughts?
> -- 
> Manik Surtani
> Lead, JBoss Cache
> manik at jboss.org
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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss - a division of Red Hat