Month: August 2008

The RESTful Ehcache Server is designed to achieve massive scaling using data partitioning – all from a RESTful interface. The largest ehcache single instances run at around 20GB in memory. The largest disk stores run at 100Gb each. Add nodes together, with cache data partitioned across them, to get larger sizes. 50 nodes at 20GB… Continue reading A terabyte cache with the RESTful Ehcache Server

IntelliJ 8 milestone 1, a.k.a. Diana rocks! For the non-IntelliJ users of this world, 8m1 was released in the last week. IntelliJ 7 annoyed me. It was slow and bloated. Some stuff was added in without enough thought. The facets feature, which I was unable to turn off irritated me so much I logged a… Continue reading IntelliJ 8 milestone 1 rocks!

I have just released ehcache-server-0.3, which includes a fully functional RESTful, resource-oriented implementation. The standalone-server has also been updated to 0.3. Cache API CacheManager Resource Operations OPTIONS / Lists the methods supported by the CacheManager resource GET / Lists the Caches in the CacheManager. Cache Resource Operations OPTIONS /{cache}/ Lists the methods supported by the… Continue reading RESTful, resource-oriented caching now available in ehcache-server

Spnego is an SPNEGO and Kerberos plugin for Glassfish. SPNEGO stands for Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism. SPNEGO is a standard GSSAPI pseudo-mechanism for peers to determine which GSSAPI mechanisms are shared, select one and then establish a security context with it. Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol, which allows individuals communicating over… Continue reading Spnego 1.1 (Kerberos between browsers and Java App servers) released