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On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]>wrote: > What is the license for Guava? > > Ralph > > On Dec 7, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Eric Sammer wrote: > > > Flumees: > > > > I was looking at some of the various LifecycleAware components in NG and > > judging how best to handle certain error cases (now that at least the > > basics are moving correctly) and realize I wasn't nearly consistent in > the > > semantics as I would have liked to be during initial implementation. I > went > > to look at a few other systems that use a similar construct (Jetty, some > > Google projects) and realized Google's Guava actually has a construct > > similar / the same as LifecycleAware in the > com.google.common.base.Service > > interface and constituents. They actually handle state transitions in the > > same way I was going to during the review. This, of course, leads me to > the > > next question of should we just adopt Guava's Service interface and > replace > > LifecycleAware? Porting LifecycleSupervisor to use Service instances and > > updating the LifecycleAware impls is just a bunch of monkey labor I am > > willing to do. If this makes sense, doing this now is probably the only > > option as this is a dependent interface of sources, sinks, and many other > > user extensible bits. > > > > I think this is in the continuing theme of keeping Flume small and > > deferring to existing libraries where possible (this wouldn't add a > > dependency as we already use Guava for other things). Unless there's a > > major objection I'm going to create a JIRA and belt it out. > > > > -- > > Eric Sammer > > twitter: esammer > > data: www.cloudera.com > >
