I think it would be a great idea to merge these project to create a complete caching solution. JCS seems to have an excellent disk caching support as well. So, the combined project could be a fantastic caching solution.
-Mir On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Raffaele P. Guidi < [email protected]> wrote: > This is of course an interesting option - well, we could also leverage > indexed disk cache as L3 - and steal indexing and recycling techniques. > Merging efforts with JCS could bring to the most complete java cache > solution in the OS world. I don't have any idea about performance of JCS > and its lateral cache, but it's probably a bit outdated and could benefit > from a technology refresh (NIO, fast serialization - see Apache Avro as an > example) > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Mir Tanvir Hossain < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > JCS already has distributed caching option. So, instead of > re-implementing > > the distributed cache, we can integrate tightly with JCS, and become its > > off-heap plugin. So, JCS could be the L1 cache, and DirectMemory could be > > the L2 cache. Just an idea. > > > > -Mir > > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Ioannis Canellos <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I was looking at the jira issues and DIRECTMEMORY-13 - Make some > > > investigation about going > > > distributed<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRECTMEMORY-13> > > > caught > > > my attention. > > > > > > I've read about some of the initial thoughts about reusing features of > > > existing Caches (Hazelcast or Terracotta) but I don't like this idea so > > > much. > > > We could reuse some of the ides that existing projects use, but I think > > > that we should either build it on our own, or use a solution not > coupled > > to > > > an existing cache. > > > > > > So what are your thought about making direct memory distributed? > > > Any thoughts about the consistency model, discovery etc? > > > > > > -- > > > *Ioannis Canellos* > > > * > > > FuseSource <http://fusesource.com> > > > > > > ** > > > Blog: http://iocanel.blogspot.com > > > ** > > > Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC > > > Apache Camel <http://camel.apache.org/> Committer > > > Apache ServiceMix <http://servicemix.apache.org/> Committer > > > Apache Gora <http://incubator.apache.org/gora/> Committer > > > Apache DirectMemory <http://incubator.apache.org/directmemory/> > > Committer > > > * > > > > > >
