The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability (Paperback)

~ Terracotta, Inc. (Author)
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Product Description

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

Written by Terracotta CTO 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 is this book 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.

About the Author

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 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Apress (June 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599861
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599860
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #379,542 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must have book to buy to understanding Terracotta Best Practices, June 23, 2008

By	Jeryl Cook "/^\ Pharaoh /^\" (White Plains, MD United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A must have book to buy to understanding Terracotta Best Practices,I personally was an early adopter and has had much success, Terracotta has proven over the years to help ease the development of HA systems, that scale from the start...this book has real world examples (not just Hello Worlds! Programs) ..to build and deploy systems backed by Terracotta for your enterprise.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent content, average language, July 12, 2008

By	Felipe Coury (Campinas, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book really presents an in-depth coverage of the power of Terracotta, backed by real world how-to examples.

The only thing that could be better is the language. Sometimes the concept is explained in a very dense language upfront, so by the time you get to the example, you get a little lost and need to go back and re-read some paragraphs.

Besides that, it's one of those examples where the content compensates the shape. A must have if you are looking forward to turning you application into a clustered solution.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book on an interesting concept, December 25, 2008

By	Ramin (VA USA) - See all my reviews

Even if you don't want to utilize Terracotta, this book is still extremely informative about virtual heap, distributed caching and clustering concept. However, once you get to read what Terracotta is about and what problems it tries to solve, you will probably realize why and how to utilize this gem in your application. The book is an easy read, it's very informative, covers Hibernate and Spring integration, talks about HTTP session caching and more.