In today's competitive business world, Enterprise systems must be able to deliver highly available systems that are able to cope with high transaction volumes with an increasing number of users. Infinispan enables you to do this, as well as share and distribute data among servers, in the most efficient way possible so that you achieve faster response times while trying to avoid single points of failure.
Infinispan Data Grid Platform will teach you the most important concepts for building Enterprise applications that achieve high availability and scalability using data grids. Using Infinispan will give you a decisive competitive advantage over the standard clustering toolkits that are typical in Enterprise today. This is the only book which covers Infinispan, offering detailed instructions for installing, configuring, and effectively using the Infinispan platform. You will learn how to utilize and make the most out of every feature of its API.
Progress from examples of adding, removing, and evicting data from a cache, to more complex scenarios, such as clustering and distributing data more efficiently in the grid. Throughout the book, you will follow a simple example of an API using a ticket booking system, which will help you to learn how to set up robust and scalable Infinispan configurations. You will also see a complete demonstration of integrating the Infinispan data grid platform with JBoss AS 7.
Chapter 1, Installing Infinispan: This chapter will introduce the Infinispan data grid platform by discussing the definition of data grid and its conceptual background. It also shows the installation of the Infinispan platform and a common set of tools that will help us in the development process.
Chapter 2, Using Infinispan Core API: This chapter introduces the core Infinispan API by discussing the two Infinispan operational modes and showing how to interact with the basic Infinispan constructs—the CacheManager interfaces and the Cache API.
Chapter 3, Introducing Infinispan Configuration: In this chapter, we will show both declarative and programmatic approaches with a focus on the basic configuration elements.
Chapter 4, Developing Advanced Configurations: This chapter introduces some advanced topics, such as clustering and transactions that are essential for scalable and reliable Enterprise applications.
Chapter 5, Monitoring Infinispan: This chapter dives into management and monitoring of the Infinispan platform, showing how to collect the relevant information related to Cache Manager and cache objects.
Chapter 6, Infinispan and CDI: This chapter demonstrates using Infinispan with the increasingly popular CDI programming model.
Chapter 7, Advanced Topics: This chapter discusses three of Infinispan's advanced topics—the asynchronous API, the query API, and customizing Infinispan.
Bonus Section— Appendix A, Infinispan and JBoss AS 7: In the appendix, we will show how to configure and develop applications using Infinispan API on a JBoss AS 7 server. The Appendix is not present in the book but is available as a free download from the following link: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/8222_Appendix_Final.pdf.
OpenJDK 1.6.0 or Sun JDK 1.6.0 or above, and Apache Maven 3.0 or above. Furthermore, a Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Eclipse is highly recommended.
This book is for Enterprise developers and architects who want to use a distributed caching and data grid solution. You should have programming knowledge of Java and a general familiarity with concepts such as data caching and clustering.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: "The stateTransfer attribute configures how a state is retrieved when a new cache joins the cluster."
A block of code is set as follows:
<clustering mode="distribution"> <sync/> <hash numOwners="3" rehashEnabled="true" rehashRpcTimeout="600000" /> </clustering>
When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
<transaction
useEagerLocking="true"
eagerLockSingleNode="true">
<recovery enabled="true" />
</transaction>
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 18:31:09+0100)
Maven home: C:\apache-maven-3.0.4\bin\..
Java version: 1.6.0, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: C:\Programmi\Java\jdk1.6.0\jre
Default locale: it_IT, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows xp", version: "5.1",
arch: "x86", family: "windows"
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "In order to get started, hit the Start Cache button, which will instantiate a cache".
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