Is that true? I used that all the time. Which means: If I use 2 io processor threads + an ExecutorFilter at the end of IoFilter which ends up with single thread to process the business logic?
On Jan 29, 2008 1:35 AM, Martin Alderson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > >
