On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Adam Heath wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
On Mar 19, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Adam Heath wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
Stepping back a little, why do you want to cache data from those
entities?
Two steps forward, one step back....
Why would you *not* want to?
Sorry, I asked first and I want to hear someone's understand of when
it's actually helpful to use a cache, especially for something like
order or party entities...
If someone wants to hear my thoughts on when it is helpful to use a
cache, well... the mailing list archives probably have a dozen such
comments (related to frequency of access versus change, access
population size versus change population size, sensitivity to being
stale, etc).
Bother, I hate discussions like this.
If you know something, if you know the reason, if you know why, why
must it be difficult for you to tell what you know? Why must others
try to infer what is going on inside your mind?
Hmmm... isn't it YOU who is asking ME to guess what is going inside
Al's mind? Remember, I asked him a question, namely to provide more
information about what he is trying to do so that I can comment
because the information provided so far was not adequate for comment.
Do you have an issue with that? Am I supposed to be some sort of
omniscient?
If I know the answer to a question, why would I redirect said question
to other resources? That just wastes the asker's time. Just give
them the answer, so they can get back to whatever they were doing
before.
With that out of the way...
Yes...
By default entities are cached.
Actually by default all entities are "cachable", not "cached". That is
up to the code.
The default in the dtd means to allow
caching. It takes an explicit change to disable the cache. There
must have been some reason why this explicit cache disable was done.
Wouldn't it be useful if such a policy decision was documented, if the
reasons why were written down somewhere?
Sounds good. Is that something you are saying you'd like to work on?
Since ofbiz sets the default for entity caching to on, ofbiz obviously
considers entity caching to be worthwhile.
I don't understand how this is relevant... but please do share more on
the topic!
ps: I hate meta-discussions. But unless they occur, bad communication
will continue to happen.
Yes, which is why I was asking for DETAILS in the first place...
-David
