Archive for the 'Spring Framework' Category
.Net Customer Announcement: Susquehanna (SIG)
March 11th, 2008In the past few months we've made several exciting announcements, such as our partnership with SpringSource , the expansion of our executive team, the launch of our community site OpenSpaces.org , the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge and the Start-Up Program . But there is nothing like a customer announcement, as in today's press release [...]
New OpenSpaces Demos and Examples Project
February 11th, 2008One of the goals of OpenSpaces.org is to promote best practices and recommended usage patterns among the GigaSpaces developer community. To that end, we have decided to dedicate some of our own resources to create a number of sample applications and blueprints that will help realize this goal. We have created a dedicated project under [...]
An Open Letter to BEA WebLogic Customers
January 18th, 2008Dear BEA WebLogic Customer:
As you probably know, Oracle just announced it is acquiring BEA for $8.5 billion. Independent industry analyst Vinnie Mirchandani said about the deal: "Customers, unlike investors, do not have much to cheer." You are now facing a vendor that will put you in one of two situations:
They [...]
OpenSpaces.org Developer Community Site Launched
January 15th, 2008Today we officially launched OpenSpaces.org, a community web site for developers who wish to utilize and contribute to the open source OpenSpaces development framework.
OpenSpaces extends the Spring Framework for enterprise Java development, and leverages the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) for data caching, messaging and as the container for application business logic. It is [...]
GigaSpaces Launches OpenSpaces.Org
January 15th, 2008Today we are announcing the official launch of OpenSpaces.org, the community web site around GigaSpaces’ OpenSpaces Framework — an open source application development framework that extends Spring to take full advantage of the scalability ad performance provided by running your…
What a year!
January 5th, 2008For the past few days I’ve been trying to write a 2007 summary, but I found this task to be extremely difficult because so many things happened this year on so many fronts. I thought that it would probably be…
Opinionated Architecture
December 20th, 2007I first heard the term “opinionated architecture” in Keith Donald’s presentation during The Spring Experience. He used this term to describe the emergence of new web frameworks, such as Grails and Ruby on Rails. The term immediately caught my attention,…
Get some “space” over the holiday season
December 19th, 2007You’ve already heard or read me talk plenty about OpenSpaces and Space Based Architecture, and how both can be used to scale out your application. Well, here is a testimonial from Srini Penchikala who just gave it a try and,…
New GigaSpaces/OpenSpaces.org Forums
December 17th, 2007As part of our ongoing effort to build and serve the fast-growing community around GigaSpaces and OpenSpaces.Org , we've re-launched our discussion forums , using Jive Forums. We have migrated all of the posts from the old forums and simplified the forum structure. So please, check them out .
The new forums are the [...]
Strut Your Stuff: The OpenSpaces Developer Challenge
December 10th, 2007I am very excited and pleased to say that today we’ve finally launched the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge. This is essentially a developer competition that invites everyone to submit their projects to the open source OpenSpaces initiative from GigaSpaces. And there…
Launching the GigaSpaces Start-Up Program
November 8th, 2007I’m very excited to announce that today we are launching our Start-Up Program. This is something I have been working on for a while, and I’m glad we finally got it out. We are essentially giving away our products for…
Excel that Scales - Grid Meets the Middle Office
May 16th, 2007
Andy Doddington of Bank of America discusses how the firm used GigaSpaces ' implementation of JavaSpaces technology to build a scalable trading analytics application for the middle office in the following paper City#Grid Special Report (Page 12)
Andy raises interesting points about common challenges we're seeing in middle office analytical applications built with Microsoft Excel:
"As [...]
