These are exciting times for developers. Two of the technology leaders in the Java world have joined their forces: one of the best Java caching solutions, Ehcache, has been bought by Terracotta, presumably the best JVM grid scaling solution today. read more »
The short answer is: No. In many of your projects, you will still find the need of using RDBMSs. And there is nothing evil about RDMSs, as long as you use them for what they are good at, and for what they were designed. Ask a snail to move fast, you will be disappointed. Ask a RDBMS to persist an object graph, you will be disappointed. Hope that Terracotta brings some magic salvation? You will be disappointed, too. read more »
I often get asked when there is something available on the CoordinateMe website that one can test. So you can get a first impression of the CoordinateMe web service. I have provided some information on the Lindenbook website, and people seem to get curious. My answer is often something like, “It’s not finished yet, I am currently integrating Terracotta.”, or, “It’s not in a usable state yet, I’m learning Spring.”, or, “I’m currently improving my UNIX scripts.” These answers do not tell anything to someone who is not into Java programming. read more »
Terracotta is one of these really cool frameworks that can make Java applications run on a computer grid without any or minor modification to application code. And even better, it comes with a dual-license, one commercial, and the other a full featured community version. read more »
