JBCACHE-344 - JBoss Cache IDE Eclipse plugin

[manik]

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.

[ajoe]

Hi,

first of all, I like the idea of this plugin, but I'm not able to connect to the bea Server with it's t3 protocoll. As far as I can see, the plugin doesn't support a connect to a bea Server?

Thanks
Jochen

[balellu]

Its a great plugin. I need some help. I was searching for documentation but i could not find it.

I want to use it monitor my CACHE in the remote machine but im not able to connect. Im using HAJNDI and i provided the port as 1100 and i am not able to figure out the JNDI name for the cache.

I searched all my configuration files but in vain can some body please help me with this so that i can connect to my remote cluster cache and monitor my objects? I need this ASAP since we are facing problem in the caching area

[manik]

JBoss Cache does not bind to JNDI by default.

Try looking it up in the JMX server.