[Jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Eclipse IDE (dev)] - Re: JBossCacheAop Plugin Discussion

[gurkanerdogdu <do-...@jb...>]

Manic Comments on the milestone version of the ide

Hi all. I've looked at Gurkan Erdogdu's JBoss Cache IDE Milestone 1 release, and have the following comments and thoughts. I'd like to kick off a discussion on this to help pinpoint the requirements better, and as a result help guide Gurkan with further releases of the IDE plugin. 

Overall 

- Worked fairly well, integrated with Eclipse (3.1.2) quite easily. 
- Was hard to 'get started' using it - needs documentation to say that the JBossCacheIDE views need to be enabled in Eclipse. 

Config Generator 


- Configuration generator is good, works, but needs a few tweaks/new features: 

   - EvictionPolicy nonexistent 
       - Should have all the Eviction Polcy classes we ship 
       - Should be able to type in a custom eviction policy loader class 

   - Should be able to type in CacheLoader classes for custom cacheloaders 
       - Defaults should have the complete set of cache loaders shipped with JBoss Cache 
       - Configs should be updated to JBC 1.3.0 style cacheloader configs ( i.e. multiple cacheloaders) 
       - Cacheloader preload should have a disabled/none check box 
       - Cacheloader properties should be a text box where users can enter a set of key/value pairs. Important for custom cache loaders. 
       - Perhaps pre-populate this set of key/value pairs for properties required for the cache loaders shipped with JBoss Cache.

    - Transaction manager lookup drop down should allow for GenericTransactionManagerLookup (default) as well as -- none -- option 
       - Should be able to type in the name of a custom Transaction Manager Lookup.

    - Other JBoss Cache 1.3.0 options such as NodeLockingScheme 
    - Ability to query org.jboss.cache.Version and hide options not available to specific versions. Also display specific version number of JBoss Cache being used. 
    - Cache configuration file name to default to treecache_generated_by_jbosscache_ide.xml 
    - JGroups group name to default to GENERATED_BY_JBOSSCACHE_IDE 
    - What does the "jar selection" section do?

- Config translator - ability to translate a JBoss Cache 1.2.x style configuration into a JBoss Cache 1.3.0 style one. 


Starting TreeCache/Object Graph/Cache Contents 


- Ability to start a TreeCache 
    - is this useful? 
    - so what if we can create nodes, we cannot create key/value pairs 
    - what use is the object graph and cache content pane if we cannot put things into the cache? 
    - In general, what is the point of running an instance of the cache in your IDE, which your running code cannot get a reference to?

- May make more sense to connect to a running TreeCache instance via JMX 

- Allows you to view/publish stats of a running system as well as cache contents.



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