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 is this book for?

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