In this chapter, we got an overview of cross-site replication, and how you can implement several cache topologies using the Infinispan technology.

You learned how to work with applications in modern distributed server architecture, using the Map Reduce API, and how it can abstract parallel programming into two simple primitives, the map and reduce methods. We have seen a sample use case Find Destination that demonstrated how use map reduce almost in real time.

We also discussed how you could make use of Infinispan's CDI module and some best practices to improve the quality of the code and the productivity. You learned how the CDI specification offers a standard, portable, and type safe support for dependency injection to Java EE. And you also learned how to create a simple application to start using CDI.

You also learned the differences between serialization and externalization and how to create advanced externalizers to define how to convert a cache object to bytes and improve the...