Hi,
2014-08-15 15:28 GMT+02:00 Jan Willem Janssen <
janwillem.jans...@luminis.eu>
:
On 15/08/14 14:58, Bob Paulin wrote:
I noticed in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3511 Java
Concurrency is being introduced to the code base. A couple of
thoughts on this.
1) With this not being backwards compatible with earlier versions
does it make sense to increment at least the minor version (ie 1.3
-> 1.4). Java 8 introduces a slew of incompatibility with prior
releases with the changes to the collection libraries so I'm
curious how other projects are handling this.
As I understand the issue, it talks about going from Java 5 to Java 6
as required version, but yes, strictly speaking this would mean a
minor bump at least. We should be more strict on this, I agree (made
the same mistake in the Felix HTTP project as well).
Actually, as far as I remember the idea was that the version number
reflects the specification version it implements - but this might not
really make sense, so bumping the minor version is a good thing.
2) Event admin has no tests. I would be interested in working on
creating some tests for this project. Any thoughts on where to
begin with this effort?
I think the current implementation is written (and maintained) by
people that have access to the OSGi TCK, so they can tests the
implementation against the specification, which might explain the lack
of unit and integration tests.
Yepp, the implementation passes the OSGi TCK which I believe tests a
lot of
aspects already.
But to get started: just start writing unit tests against the code in
trunk and provide them as patches. It is always good to have tests
written by somebody else, as they most often have new/fresh insights
in the use cases...
Absolutely, we also have some additional tests in the whiteboard area
for
event admin. It's basically a stress test.
3) It appears there maybe other areas of the event admin code that
might benefit from the Concurrency objects. Perhaps the use of one
of the Queue constructs for holding some of the asynchronous
events. Thoughts on this?
As long as it has positive effect on the performance, I think nobody
will complaint about this, if you're willing to provide patches ;)
Right :) This has all been written initially on Java 1.4 so there might
be
areas which can be improved.
However, a nicer implementation is one thing, the other one is
performance.
The goal should be to have a minimum on synchronization between threads
to
get the best performance. I'm not saying the current implementation is
perfect though :)
Carsten
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