Chapter 4. The Persistence SPI

Alignment with JSR-107 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=107). JBoss Data Grid's CacheWriter and CacheLoader interfaces are similar to the JSR-107 writer and reader. As a result, alignment with JSR-107 provides improved portability for stores across JCache-compliant vendors.

Simplified transaction integration. JBoss Data Grid handles locking automatically and so implementations do not have to coordinate concurrent access to the store. Depending on the locking mode, concurrent writes on the same key may not occur. However, implementors expect operations on the store to originate from multiple threads and add the implementation code accordingly.

Reduced serialization, resulting in reduced CPU usage. The new SPI exposes stored entries in a serialized format. If an entry is fetched from persistent storage to be sent remotely, it does not need to be serialized (when reading from the store) and then serialized again (when writing to the wire). Instead, the entry is written to the wire in the serialized format as fetched from the storage.