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.
In this chapter we shall cover:
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 back in the opposite direction
Providing an alternative distributed session store for web applications
Introducing the cluster management center