[jbosscache-dev] JBCACHE-471 - Handling JGroups MERGE

[Brian Stansberry]

Manik Surtani wrote:
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> On 19 Mar 2008, at 19:26, Brian Stansberry wrote:

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>> What's your gut feel on whether this will happen for 2.2?
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> I think it's possible if that's where we set our sights.  At the end of 
> the day, we'd include an interface and an adapter with no-op methods, 
> and if people stick to using the adapter, the interface in question can 
> later be enhanced for 3.x if need be with more sophisticated overloaded 
> callbacks, to create more sophisticated handlers.
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> In terms of my preference, I'd *like* to get it out for 2.2 to give the 
> community more time to play with it, write handlers, etc., and help 
> shape a more formal interface in 3.x.  Perhaps it could be marked as a 
> "preview" feature, prone to change/enhancements in 3.x?
> 

That certainly takes some of the pressure off the interface discussion. 
:-) As long as it's "preview" in the sense of "we might change this a 
lot in 3.x" and not in the sense of "these 2 impls we provide are not 
quite production ready."  If it's the latter, probably not worth doing.

> In any case, I only see us writing the 2 simplest handlers in the first 
> go, with more complex, intelligent merging to come later.
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> Cheers
> -- 
> Manik Surtani
> Lead, JBoss Cache
> manik at jboss.org
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Brian Stansberry
Lead, AS Clustering
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
brian.stansberry at redhat.com