[jbosscache-dev] Pulling the FileCacheLoader from 3.0.0

[Manik Surtani]

On 27 Mar 2008, at 20:17, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> Manik Surtani wrote:
>> What do you guys think?  Too many people try and use this in  
>> production and then complain that it doesn't work.  It is not  
>> transactional and cannot withstand a JVM crash midway during a write.
>> Should we deprecate this in 2.2.0 and remove it in 3.0.0?
>> I know that JBoss AS uses it in some cases, but can that not be  
>> changed to use the JDBM cache loader?
>
> No, it can't. :( Unfortunately, JDBM appears to be a pretty dead  
> project.

"Mature", as some may call it.  :-)  I was just having a conversation  
with the JDBM lead the other day - it's certainly not abandoned or  
anything.

> FCL is just an impl of a pluggable interface though. If you don't  
> want it in 3.0 and if we can't find a valid replacement by the time  
> AS is ready to consume 3.0, then I can always pull the FCL code into  
> the AS/EJB3 source tree.

That is always an option, I guess.  Shall we stick with deprecating it  
in 2.2 and removing it in 3.0 then?

Cheers
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Manik Surtani
Lead, JBoss Cache
manik at jboss.org