Would the deployable cache stores benefit from 4) as well? It seems to me as the only 'right' option.
R. On 01/25/2016 02:29 PM, Tristan Tarrant wrote: > Hi all, > > Jakub has recently revived the Cassandra Cache Store (CCS from now on) > which, as you all will remember, was pushed to an external repository > where it lay in abandonment ever since. > > We now need to add support for this store to Infinispan Server, but > unfortunately, because of the "monolithic schema" approach that WildFly > imposes on subsystems, this has to be done within the Infinispan > subsystem itself. > This creates a conundrum, since the CCS depends on Infinispan core, > server would depend on the CCS but server is part of the Infinispan build. > > Possible solutions: > 1) move the CCS back into the main repo > - pros: no more conundrum, built by default, easier to maintain > - cons: makes the repo even bigger, binds the lifecycle of the CCS > to Infinispan's > 2) extend the server to be able to interpret the CCS schema but not > actually depend on its code and provide the code to instantiate the CCS > as an overlay module which can be installed on server > - pros: keeps the lifecycle of the CCS independent > - cons: additional complexity to handle the split, forces us to > still keep server aligned with schema changes in the CCS itself. > 3) make the CCS a deployable cache store > - pros: easiest > - cons: not really ootb experience, no nice schema > 4) create a dedicated subsystem for the CCS and "invent" a way to > reference it from the main Infinispan subsystem using a naming > convention, similar to how datasources are currently implemented. > - pros: keeps the two projects independent, reusable for other > Cachestores > - cons: writing a subsystem from scratch is complex (although bits > of it could be made reusable for multiple cachestores). > > Your thoughts please. > > Tristan -- Radim Vansa <[email protected]> JBoss Performance Team _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
