NP Martin. Sorry someone could not get back to you quicker. Alex
On Jan 29, 2008 7:18 AM, Martin Alderson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just noticed that the latest trunk has already combined > UnorderedExecutorFilter and ExecutorFilter. > > Please ignore my original message - I hope I didn't waste anyones time! > > Thanks, > > Martin > > > > >>> "Martin Alderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 28/01/2008 > 17:35 >>> > Hi all, > > I've just spent a while trying to figure out the threading behaviour of > MINA in the ApacheDS replication service. > > Eventually I found that it was using ThreadModel and that this is now not > recommended. After investigation into adding an ExecutorFilter to the end > of the IoFilter chain I found that it was only using one thread even though > I had specified a ThreadPoolExecutor. > > I see that MINA 2 has an UnorderedExecutorFilter which allows multiple > threads to process the incoming messages simultaneously, but do we need to > have an ExecutorFilter at all? Couldn't we just use a single threaded > executor with the UnorderedExecutorFilter like > Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor()? > > Personally I think we should just replace ExecutorFilter with > UnorderedExecutorFilter. The current behaviour seems very misleading. If > this can't be done then perhaps we could update the documentation > (specifically http://mina.apache.org/configuring-thread-model.html) to > make it clear that ExecutorFilter will not make use of a ThreadPoolExecutor? > > Please correct me if I'm wrong with any of this - this is the first time > I've even seen the Executor class :) > > Thanks, > > Martin > > > >
