Yes agreed.  I've extensively tested this, but that is never enough.  How do I 
get the BVTs ran against this.  Due to the cross cutting nature of this I want 
to get this merged as fast as possible.  

Darren

> On Oct 2, 2013, at 4:43 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 on running the BVT on it.  We've been through this one once before.  
> Should be careful.
> 
> --Alex
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kelven Yang [mailto:kelven.y...@citrix.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2013 4:39 PM
>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: [MERGE] spring-modularization to master - Spring
>> Modularization
>> 
>> Darren,
>> 
>> This looks really nice. A few questions on Spring AOP replacement.
>> 
>> 1) Spring AOP is proxy-based, the reason we ended up of using customized
>> AOP is mainly due to that inside existing CloudStack codebase, we have many
>> places that are doing run-time type-casting, the code in these places
>> assumes a real object that implements all interfaces in the semantics 
>> context.
>> At the time when I initially converted to Spring, I couldn't ensure that
>> switching to proxy-based AOP can have 100% coverage for these run-time
>> cases. What is your approach to address this run-time type-casting issue?
>> 
>> 2) We've run into a huge-memory footprint issue that may be caused by
>> conflicts of CGLIB usage in Spring AOP and the CGLIB usage in CloudStack Dao
>> layer. Do you have a chance to run a memory analysis in the heap after
>> management server is started.
>> 
>> I might be good to run BVT test on the branch before the merge, could
>> someone initiate the effort?
>> 
>> kelven
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/2/13 3:48 PM, "Darren Shepherd" <darren.s.sheph...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Not sure how this works...  I would like to merge in the new
>>> modularized Spring setup to master. There is info on the wiki about it
>>> [1] [2] [3].  The primary change is to break apart the monolithic
>>> applicationContext.xml and componentContext.xml files such that each
>>> plugin can maintain and contribute its own configuration.
>>> 
>>> In addition to breaking up the configuration we no longer use ACS
>>> custom AOP and it is now fully Spring AOP.
>>> 
>>> Now adding/removing a plug-in is a matter of just adding a jar to the
>>> classpath (exception being commands.properties, I'll address that in a
>>> different thread).  Unfortunately this branch does not have the changes
>>> to package things in different RPMs.  So it would be great if somebody
>>> could take up the packaging effort to split out all the plugins into
>>> different RPMs.
>>> 
>>> Darren
>>> 
>>> [1]
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Modularize+Sp
>> rin
>>> g
>>> [2]
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Plug-
>> ins%2C+Modu
>>> les
>>> %2C+and+Extensions
>>> [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Extensions
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