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The membership manager can forcefully shut down a Geode cache if it detects it is no longer a member of the distributed system.

Interfaces

There are a number of existing interfaces in Geode that must be implemented by the membership manager:

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Properties getProperties()

Implementation Notes

In order to preserve as much of the current membership behavior as possible, fostering adoption of Geode by the GemFire user base the existing JGroupMembershipManager will be copied and most of its code will be preserved.  It will continue to hold the DirectChannel but will now also hold a ServiceConfig that it will use in place of the JGroups channel.

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All of the JGroups statistics in DistributionStats need to be removed or replaced with corresponding stats based on the new implementation.

Testing

Since this is implementing an existing interface in Geode there are already a lot of tests that exercise it.  These tests will need some attention if they are referring to any JGroups code.  The use of interfaces in this version of the MembershipManager should allow us to create real unit tests, as opposed to integration tests, for each component to achieve a higher level of code coverage.

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