The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

Get the definitive guide on all the fundamentals of Terracotta as well as user secrets, recipes, and prepackaged frameworks.

Written by Terracotta's chief technology officer Ari Zilka and his team, The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability covers the following:

• High Availability (HA) nth degree scaling and clustering for traditional J2EE and Java EE 5 applications (using Seam or other application) as well as Spring–based enterprise applications



• Everyday Terracotta using its prepackaged frameworks and integration recipes, including configuration and customization for your application tuning, no matter the scale



• Power user secrets available, including config modules, customized advanced performance tuning, SDLC, Maven, and more

What you’ll learn

• See how Terracotta works fundamentally, and the user pieces and parts necessary for using Terracotta and its open source options



• Learn and apply case studies involving distributed cache, Hibernate, Master/Worker, and HTTP Session



• Understand thread coordination and advanced performance tuning



• Use more advanced case studies involving Spring, POJOs, FOO, and more



• Configure and create your own modules using the software development and deployment life cycle

Who this book is for

This definitive book from the Terracotta team is for both developers and architects who want to learn the “whats, wheres, whens, and whys” of the Terracotta scaling engine.

Table of Contents

1. Theory and Foundation: Forming a Common Understanding



2. History of Terracotta



3. Jumping Into Terracotta



4. POJO Clustering



5. Caching



6. Hibernate with Terracotta



7. Extending HTTP Sessions with Terracotta



8. Clustering Spring



9. Integration Modules



10. Thread Coordination



11. Grid Computing Using Terracotta



12. Visualizing Applications