I blogged about JBoss Cache, can somebody please check it's

[kennardconsulting]

So after my own few hours of headaches, I did my community bit and blogged what I worked out...

http://kennardconsulting.blogspot.com/2009/12/newbies-guide-to-jboss-cache.html

Can somebody please check and make sure the information I am giving out is correct, lest it end up making it worse for those that read it?

Regards,

Richard.

[brian.stansberry]

Thanks for doing this! :-)

A couple suggestions:

1) You imply right at the beginning that your post is oriented toward AS users, but I recommend you state flat-out that your example is for running in the AS. That's because CacheManagerLocator doesn't exist outside the AS so people trying it outside the AS will fail.

2) The "sfsb-cache" is meant for EJB3 SFSB replication. It's technically possible to use it for other purposes, but I'd recommend creating a separate config, particular if clustered EJB3 SFSBs are deployed in your AS.

Note also that sfsb-cache doesn't integrate with the standard JTA transaction manager running in the AS, so if your app needs JTA integration you'd need a different config.


BTW, a (hopefully) helpful link for this general topic is http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbossclustering/freezone/docs/cluster_guide/5.1/html/jbosscache.chapt.html#jbosscache-custom-deployment

[kennardconsulting]

Brian,

Now updated. Many thanks for your feedback.

By the way, using CacheManagerLocator 'tastes' decidely old-fashioned. Are there any plans for JBoss Cache/Infinispan to support something like a @Cache injection annotation for member variables? Something like:

@Cache(name='sfsb-cache')
private Cache<Object, Object> mMyCache;

Regards,

Richard.

[manik]

Richard,

No plans as yet, but feel free to suggest this on the Infinispan dev mail list. Sounds like something that may prove useful.

Cheers
Manik

[vadimk]

I've tried exactly what you are suggesting here without any success.

If I use CacheManagerLocator then I get InvalidParameterException, because returned CacheManager is always null.

I tried to go directly via JNDI context and can see the returned Object is null.

However, I can see my caches eagerly started and I can see reference to java:CacheManager in JMX-CONSOLE. So, it seems that CacheManager bound to JNDI is not initialized or the wrong Object is bound.

I even added <depends>CacheManager</depends> to my application with no effect.

I could not find any help on this topic, so any suggestions on how to make it work would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running JBoss.5.1.0-GA with ALL configuration, so all the jars should be available there.

Thanks, Vadim