DistributedLock on remote Infinispan cluster

[kschroiff]

Hi,

I am currently evaluating some distributed Caches in order to replace our Terracotta server.

Since we are using JBoss 7 in prod I thought it would makes sense to give infinispan 7 a try - in a remote server setup that is.

After running into numerous classloader issues (with the embedded but dormant infinispan 5) plus a recently filed JCache bug, I managed to make the cache aspect working.

So far so good.

Thereafter I tried to use the Distributed Locks ... but only to find out that RemoteCache returned from HotRod doesn't expose this (it's not derived from AdvancedCache which does).

Any idea how to do distributed locks on a remote infinispan server ? I didn't find something in the docs about this.

Thanks

Klaus

[nadirx]

Until we implement transactions over HotRod, we won't have remote locks. There might be a workaround, however: what do you intend to do ?

[kschroiff]

Well, there are always workarounds. :-) In fact I used one for Memcached which is, possibly, also applicable to Infinispan as well.
However, since I am evaluating a set of competing products, we'll stick to one that can provide remote distributed locks without workarounds.

Thanks for the confirmation anyway!