Re: [cinjug-users] Next Meeting - Aug. 20th - Terracotta

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I saw a talk on this in December at the Spring Experience.  It's cool stuff although admittedly I was quite lost most of the time.  Maybe this time I'll understand more!

;-)

- Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Ball <mwball@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:51
Subject: [cinjug-users] Next Meeting - Aug. 20th - Terracotta
To: users@xxxxxxxxxx

> 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
> 
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