I'd like to think this reset should let us get to see a release with
generics sooner rather than later. I'm all for releasing early for
generics and moving on from three.

Gary

On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:14, Phil Steitz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4/23/11 8:07 AM, Simone Tripodi wrote:
>> GREAT, thanks Phil!!!
>> I'm going to checkout the current trunk and updating pool code!!!
>> Have a nice weekend!!!
>> Simo
>
> Great!  Remember to update changes.xml in trunk with references to
> issues as you bring things over.  For now, let's just make the
> generification changes (i.e., hold off on property name and
> mutability changes).  I will start working on dbcp, first attacking
> the real issues against 1.x and then getting compilation against the
> new pool to work in trunk.
>
> Phil
>> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/
>> http://www.99soft.org/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Phil Steitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 3/22/11 11:20 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>>> On 22/03/2011 17:58, Gary Gregory wrote:
>>>>> Hi Mark and all:
>>>>>
>>>>> It's good to hear someone is thinking about moving forward!
>>>>>
>>>>> pool2 trunk seems to me to be highly volatile based on having worked some 
>>>>> in
>>>>> pool2.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've read opinions here going back and forth as to how to solidify the API
>>>>> or even go /back/ to the pool1 style before moving forward again.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think time would be better spent solidifying pool2. Time spent matching
>>>>> dbcp2 to pool2 could be a waste because, to me, pool2 feels like a moving
>>>>> target ATM.
>>>> pool2 is a moving target because a lot of the re-factoring has been an
>>>> academic exercise. Having a clear end user for this (Tomcat -> DBCP ->
>>>> POOL) should provide the direction necessary to solidify pool2. I don't
>>>> mind working with a moving target as long as it is moving towards a
>>>> clear goal. That goal for me is:
>>>> - Java 5 / generics
>>>> - fixing inconsistencies / oddities
>>>> - improved performance on DBCP in multi-core servers.
>>>>
>>>> It would certainly make starting dbcp2 a whole lot easier if most of the
>>>> pool2 re-factoring had not taken place. I think we made a mistake in not
>>>> pushing forward with DBCP and POOL in parallel. That said, I like a lot
>>>> of the pool2 changes and don't want to throw them away.
>>>>
>>>> What do folks think to the following:
>>>> - move pool trunk to a POOL_FUTURE branch
>>>> - restore pool trunk to a copy of the POOL_1_X branch
>>> Done.
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>> - rename pool package to o.a.c.pool2
>>>>  (in reality this would probably be a merge from POOL_FUTURE)
>>>> - rename dbcp packages to o.a.c.dbcp2
>>>> - get pool2 and dbcp2 working together
>>>> - get Tomcat trunk working with dbcp2
>>>> - go through the POOL_FUTURE changes one at a time:
>>>>  - merging it into pool2 trunk
>>>>  - updating dbcp2 trunk if necessary
>>>>  - testing updated dbcp2 with Tomcat
>>>>  - if a POOL_FUTURE change breaks DBCP/Tomcat integration in a way that
>>>> can't easily be fixed skip that change and leave it in POOL_FUTURE
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>> Min Java 5: +1!
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't let the title get your hopes up. I don't have one yet, at least
>>>>>> not a complete one.
>>>>>> One of the primary driver for pool2 was to make use of
>>>>>> java.util.concurrent for the pool implementation and significantly
>>>>>> improve DBCP performance on multi-core systems (re-using ideas where we
>>>>>> can from Tomcat's jdbc-pool). I'm at the point where I have some time to
>>>>>> work on this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My very outline plan was as follows:
>>>>>> a) get DBCP working with pool2
>>>>>> b) run the jdbc-pool performance tests to see how much ground we need to
>>>>>> catch up
>>>>>> c) improve the pool2 implementation until we get somewhere close to
>>>>>> jdbc-pool
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a) is non-trival and is really the focus of this e-mail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Issue 1
>>>>>> =======
>>>>>> DBCP isn't going to be able to use pool2 without some major re-factoring.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My solution is:
>>>>>> - copy current dbcp trunk to a branch
>>>>>> - rename o.a.commons.dbcp to o.a.commons.dbcp2
>>>>>> - update dependencies from pool to pool2
>>>>>> - get it working
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Issue 2
>>>>>> =======
>>>>>> DBCP also ships with the o.a.commons.jocl package.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There have been no jocl related questions on the users list since 2007.
>>>>>> To prevent clashes between dbcp1 and dbcp2 I propose to simply drop JOCL
>>>>>> support in dbcp2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Issue 3
>>>>>> =======
>>>>>> Minimum Java version.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Supporting multiple JDBC API versions is a nuisance. I propose switching
>>>>>> to a jdbc-pool style proxy approach. I also propose a minimum Java
>>>>>> version of 5 to align with pool2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Issue 4
>>>>>> =======
>>>>>> Will the new dbcp work with Servlet containers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There were some concerns in this area with the pool2 re-factoring. This
>>>>>> needs to be tested but my turn out to be a non-issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think these 4 issues need to be resolved before there is a pool2 or
>>>>>> dbcp2 release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Assuming there are no objections, I plan to start committing along these
>>>>>> lines in the next couple of days.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark
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