On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Geert Bevin <[email protected]> wrote:

> The cluster events we're thinking of in the light of this redesign is to
> provide information about the state of the cluster that is not possible to
> obtain otherwise. Extending this towards allowing people to register and
> trigger their own events through the server would imho cross the lines of
> the purpose of Terracotta. DSO gives you the core tools to make things
> possible, not necessarily with a ready-cooked implementation or interface
> for all use cases. We extend that functionality through TIMs that are much
> higher level. So the way I see it is that as long as the cluster events
> redesign allows a TIM to be written with higher level features, its scope is
> correct.

Absolutely agree: if the new TC events API will allow developers to
extend them in order to support custom events, that will be the
perfect solution.

> I suggest that I write out the detailed spec and API proposal first. If you
> have time, it would be awesome if you could check that the low-level
> features you needed for master/worker are now there to at least make it
> possible to implement your needs.

Sure: let me know as soon as your proposal draft will be ready.

> We can then later see about maybe creating
> a TIM with a higher level scope.

Then please consider me as a volunteer for such a TIM ;)

Cheers,

Sergio B.

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