Hi All,
I'm not sure as to which list I should post this to, so apologies in
advance if I've not gotten to the right audience.
I've been using Grizzly for the past 18 months and I've not been an
active community member and as such so of the issues I may report are in
some ways my own fault.
Firstly our move from GF2.0.1 to GF2.1 has been pretty much an
unmitigated disaster. Mainly due to Grizzly and specifically our use of
its Cometd implementation. We've always been plagued by the CPU
consumption problem and only moving from Linux to Windows alleviated
that. Recently due to a virtual server bug fix, our production team
wanted us to move to GF 2.1 and since then we've been fighting with a
comet expiration delay issue highlighted in the following thread.
http://tinyurl.com/kp8n2w
Firstly it seems that the Comet implementation changed its API without
any form of communication to its user base and without any deprecation
model being followed. Whilst this might be something that a major
release MIGHT allow, it should not be the case for simple maintenance
releases. This again caused us delay.
In addition whilst not particularly a Grizzly issue. One never actually
knows for sure what version of Grizzly is actually in use with GF. The
GF package process at least that of GF2.X is abysmal. Once you do find
the correct Grizzly module, where's the equivalent source? In fact I'd
to dig deep into JIRA to find that only in May was Grizzly's 1.0.X
source moved to its SVN, revision 3149. Most of the time the only way to
know is to download all the source for GF.
Now it seems a fix for the expiration issue was post in 1.0.30-SNAPSHOT
http://download.java.net/maven/2/com/sun/grizzly/grizzly-framework-http
But alas, where's the source?
Sure there's allot of work around the forth coming version of GFv3 and
the work Grizzly has done to support that. But this is still not a
released platform and whilst I'd love to migrate, we're not going to be
able to put it into production until all the features we need are
available. As a net result, we're stuck on GF2.1 and in all honesty very
frustrated with it and sadly most of that frustration is Grizzly related.
Kind Regards.
James