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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:11:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: Bruce Snyder <ferret@frii.com>
To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Caching
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This one time, at band camp, Berin Loritsch said:

BL>Alex Blewitt wrote:
BL>
BL>> It came to my attention in the org.apache.geronimo.cache package that a 
BL>> number of these things have been implemented already by the 
BL>> org.apache.excalibur.cache package. Perhaps someone with CVS access 
BL>> could put a comment in to potentially refactor these two together at a 
BL>> later stage?
BL>
BL>It would probably be worth it.  Also the Excalibur "Store" includes another
BL>cache implementation....
BL>
BL>To further cloud the picture, I believe that there might be a Jakarta
BL>Commons Cache implementation.
BL>
BL>A best of breed would be a good thing.  Probably should evaluate it based
BL>on the good points of each implementation and start with whatever is closest
BL>to where we want to end up.

This could be refactored to make use of the JCache API when it is finally
released. This would make this layer pluggable. For now, we can make
use of the java.util.Map interface right now as that is very close the
yet to be seen JCache API.

Bruce
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