Abstract the Transport and TransportListener Interfaces so that the move around Objects instead of Command and Response objects.

• Key: AMQ-976
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Hiram Chirino
• Reporter: Hiram Chirino
• Fix Version/s: 4.1.0

Description

If the Transport and TransportListener interfaces can be abstracted even more so that they move around Objects instead of Commands and Responses. This would allow us to use most of the Transport components with other command sets besides the current ActiveMQ one.

The main use case I'm thinking of is the possibility of supporting the qpid command set directly by the broker.

Comments

[Hiram Chirino]

done.

[Tom Kaitchuck]

This is an unbelievably bad idea! Passing around "Objects" and casting them to whatever you feel like is just giving up on design. This change does absolutely no good for future extensibility or flexibility as none of the functions actually implement the logic to support this functionality.

[Hiram Chirino]

Tom,

This abstraction already proved useful in the qpid module accessible at:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/sandbox/qpid/

It has allowed us to use the ActiveMQ transports on totally different command set (The AMQP wire format frames and messages).

And it has not increased the complexity of the API.