Technology stacks have evolved into precise and broad choices, with numerous libraries and their dependencies all bundled together to support our applications. To help integrate into this wild ecosystem of technologies, Hazelcast provides us with some support to use and extend a few popularly used libraries, as well as to provide implementations of standardized interfaces.
In this chapter, we shall cover the following topics:
Using dependency injection to help set up our cluster
Working with a popular data layer for caching to help bridge the gap between traditional databases and the new world of Hazelcast
Using external database persistence for Hazelcast collections to bridge the gap in the opposite direction
Providing an alternative distributed session store for web applications
Developing against the industry standard caching interface, JCache
Looking at how to monitor and support our cluster