I mentioned in an earlier post that a project I'm working on needed a thread-safe class with behavior similar to LinkedHashMap, which maintains the order of entries while allowing sub-classes to set a (rather primitive) eviction policy. I came upon and started using Ben Manes's ConcurrentLinkedHashMap, with only minor modifications to allow for easier sub-classing. I've been pretty happy with it so far and have been meaning to take a look at recent changes that he and "zellster" have made since I last downloaded the code.
The same project is also using ehcache for caching. I was looking forward to the release of version 1.6 and inquired about the expected release date on the developer's forum. That kicked off an exchange between me and Greg Luck, the lead for ehcache, that eventually led to him mentioning some problems he'd encountered with ConcurrentLinkedHashMap. I'm going to check in with Ben and let him respond to what Greg said, along with giving him a chance to provide a guess for when his new version of CLHM is likely to be usable. I also need to look into what Greg was referring to in the changelog for ehcache 1.6 beta5 when he said, "Make MemoryStore eviction policies injectable." Interesting…
Just to confuse matters, I was also recently looking over some materials discussing Infinispan, which will essentially be the 4.0 release of JBoss Cache, and saw this interesting blog entry on "Implementing a performant, thread-safe ordered data container". In it, Manik Surtani mentions their newly implemented classes FIFODataContainer and LRUDataContainer, which sound like another plausible way to approach my problem. I'll make sure to ask more about them in the comments for that post.
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