Next Meeting - Aug. 20th - Terracotta

["Mike Ball" <mwball@xxxxxxxxx>]

This should be a great talk, hope to see you there.  It was
recommended by a local employee of Terracotta and CinJUG member.

When: August 20th, food 6-6:30, talk 6:30-8ish
Where: Max Training - Mason Location - http://www.maxtrain.com/directions/
What: Terracotta
Who: Orion Letizi is a co-founder and software engineer at Terracotta.
He has worked in enterprise Java for nearly ten years. Before
Terracotta, he was a software architect at Walmart.com.

Details:
http://www.terracotta.org/
http://www.cinjug.org/meetings/index.html

Open Terracotta is a development project dedicated to bringing the
best available clustering technology to Java. We recognize that the
most successful software technology - the kind that drives innovation,
fosters growth of an active developer community, and ultimately
delivers real end-user value - rests on open standards.

Open Terracotta already has support from several open source companies
and community members. Leading contributors from communities such as
Spring, Tomcat and Geronimo will be helping guide Open Terracotta as
steering committee members or contributors.

Generally speaking, Terracotta is designed for:

    * Sharing Transient Data - sharing cache, session and other
"transient" data across nodes
    * Application Coordination - easy signaling across JVMs to
coordinate application workload and access to resources
    * Managing Very Large Virtual Heaps - the ability to provide
virtual heaps unlimited except for the available disk size to 32-bit
machines with only 2GB of addressable heap size