ehcache-1.2.4 released

Ehcache-1.2.4 has been released.
It contains four feature and fifteen bug fixes received in the three months since ehcache-1.2.3 was released. See the changelog for details.
Eight of the changes in this release are scalability improvements contributed by users running very large ehcache deployments. The distributed caching changes stem from a user who is using ehcache in a multi-subnet cluster of 20 nodes.
The Caching and Gzip filters in the web package have been updated to work on Glassfish and Tomcat.
The distributed caching functionality in ehcache is now 6 months ago and is widely used. Moreover the maintainer has now been running ehcache distributed in production for four months without incident. This functionality can now be considered mature.
Another area that has improved in this release is a large reduction in thread use. Ehcache used to use three threads per DiskStore. Now it uses one.
Ehcache has no open bugs or patches at the time of release.
Work now turns to a meaningful JSR107 (JCACHE) implementation and perhaps pushing to fix up and then releasing JSR107. From what I have seen around there is now pent up demand for JSR107 to be released. I am planning to implement it as it is but keep a list of its shortcomings for use in negotiating some improvements with my expert group colleagues.

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As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003. Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.