Get the definitive and official guide to the fundamentals of the Terracotta clustering/scaling platform. This book includes user secrets, recipes, and prepackaged frameworks necessary for building and deploying highly scalable, data-intensive Java EE 6 and/or Spring 3-based applications-for traditional or cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS). Written by Terracotta CTO Ari Zilka and his team, The Definitive Guide to Terracotta, Second Edition covers the following using the latest Terracotta engine: * High-availability nth-degree scaling and clustering using the new Java EE 6 and Spring 3-based enterprise application platforms * New power user secrets, including how to use config modules, customized advanced performance tuning, SDLC, Maven, and more * New in-depth content and focus on distributed caching, Hibernate integration, Spring 3 clustering, grid computing, visualization, and sever arrays What you'll learn * How Terracotta works fundamentally, and the details of its user pieces and parts * How to apply case studies involving the new h21c, distributed cache, Hibernate, Master/Worker, HTTP sessions, new event APIs, and locality * How to perform thread coordination and advanced performance tuning * How to cluster with the new Spring Framework 3 and its applications * How to do grid computing * How to maximize your cloud application or SaaS scaling and deployments Who this book is for This book is for both developers and architects who want to learn the whats, wheres, whens, and whys of the Terracotta scaling engine.

Author Biography

Terracotta, Inc., delivers plug-in capacity and availability for Java applications at runtime with no application code changes. Terracotta simplifies development, deployment, testing, and management by moving clustering and caching services to the JVM instead of the application. With Terracotta, Java applications are highly available, have linear scale, and have improved performance. Terracotta customers include industry leaders in the financial services and telecom sectors. Founded in 2003, Terracotta is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco.