[jbosscache-dev] Re: JGroups Shared Transport support in JBC

[Bela Ban]

Should have told me yesterday... :-)

Brian Stansberry wrote:
> Bela Ban wrote:
>>
>>
>> Brian Stansberry wrote:
>>> In JGroups 2.6.2, the JGroups team is introducing the shared 
>>> transport as a (superior) alternative to the multiplexer.  Want to 
>>> touch off a discussion of how to take advantage of that in JBC.
>>>
>>> Currently in JBC, user can inject a ChannelFactory into their cache 
>>> configuration, and configure a MultiplexerStack (string).  If both 
>>> are set, JBC calls ChannelFactory.createMultiplexerChannel(), which 
>>> returns a MuxChannel.
>>>
>>> So, how can JBC get a regular JChannel w/ a shared transport instead 
>>> of a MuxChannel?  Couple solutions come to mind:
>>>
>>> 1) Add a configuration property ChannelStack to the JBC config.  If 
>>> present, JBC calls JChannelFactory.createChannel(String) instead of 
>>> ChannelFactory.createMultiplexerChannel().  Basically, the user 
>>> indicates what they want by how they configure.  This IMHO is the 
>>> cleanest and simplest.
>>>
>>> Problem is the createChannel(String) method is not exposed in the 
>>> ChannelFactory interface; it's only in the JChannelFactory 
>>> implementation.  JBC needs to use the interface.  Bela, can this 
>>> method be added to the interface in 2.6.2?
>>
>> I changed this in the 2.6 branch, however, as 2.6.2 was released 
>> yesterday I cannot add it to 2.6.2...
>>
>
> Oh well. I just noticed it not being in the interface when I started 
> drafting this. :(
>
>

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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss - a division of Red Hat