[jbosscache-dev] Pulling the FileCacheLoader from 3.0.0

[Brian Stansberry]

Manik Surtani wrote:
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> 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.
> 

Well, that's good.  The last release was 1.0 in Aug 2005.

Passivating sessions is a pretty important use case.  With FCL, warts 
and all, I know where the pain points are (and they aren't as bad, since 
passivation isn't transactional).

>> 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?
> 

OK by me. Posting on the user forum about it is probably not a bad idea 
though.

> 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