Appistry Announces Support for Spring Framework - Providing Comprehensive Scalability Solution for Spring-Based Applications.Appistry and Interface21 Partner to Simplify Development and Deployment of Large-Scale, Mission Critical Applications SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, and Interface21, a provider of open source software for mission-critical enterprise applications, today announced a strategic partnership and previewed Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (Appistry EAF EAF - Effort Adjustment Factor ) for Spring. Appistry EAF for Spring offers a comprehensive yet easy-to-use solution for reliably scaling out Spring applications with no code changes. The new offering will provide Spring customers with the compute and data grid  The introduction to this article is vague. To comply with Wikipedia's guidelines, it should be improved. facilities required by
large-scale, mission-critical applications, including those for
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enterprise high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ).
Downloaded more than 3 million times to date, Spring has become the dominant Java application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. framework, well-recognized for its productivity and ease-of-use; thousands of organizations have used Spring to build and deploy sophisticated, mission-critical applications with outstanding results. Appistry EAF for Spring allows these organizations to build on their success with the framework and take advantage of the enhanced scalability and reliability provided by Appistry's application fabric software. "The productivity and flexibility of the Spring programming model has made it the default choice for enterprise Java. Appistry EAF for Spring will help organizations succeed with large-scale, mission-critical applications by allowing them to easily scale Spring applications in a highly reliable manner without the complexity of traditional deployment approaches," said Rod Johnson For the former soccer player, see Rod Johnson (footballer) Rod Johnson is an American public address announcer for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. , founder of the Spring Framework and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Interface21. The integrated offering will allow developers and architects of Spring applications to transparently take advantage of the unique capabilities provided by Appistry's award-winning application fabric software: * scale-out virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , which makes a pool of compute resources appear as a single, virtualized resource * application-level fault-tolerance, which transparently ensures the reliability of in-flight work * automated management, which automates deployment and provisioning of applications across the grid or cluster "Appistry's application fabric provides customers with a powerful yet lightweight approach for scaling applications across a virtualized pool of commodity servers," said Kevin Haar, CEO of Appistry. "By combining the fabric's scalability, reliability and performance with the simplicity of Spring we're making it possible for Java developers and architects to develop and deploy mission-critical software quicker and easier than ever before... We're giving them their cake and letting them eat it too!" Appistry EAF for Spring will be demonstrated at Appistry's booth, #432, at the JavaOne Conference May 8-11, 2007, and will be generally available in summer 2007. Additional information is available on the Appistry EAF for Spring homepage at http://www.appistry.com/special/spring. Developers interested in participating in the Appistry EAF for Spring Limited Beta program may apply at the same site. About Appistry Appistry's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric, delivers the combined benefits of grid computing and virtualization by allowing customers to rapidly create highly scalable service-oriented applications and readily deploy them across a virtualized "grid" of inexpensive computers. As a result, Appistry customers, such as FedEx, Northrop Grumman and GeoEye, are able to quickly and inexpensively bring new capabilities to market, with the agility, dependability and scale demanded by their businesses. For more information, visit www.appistry.com, or call 888-APP-0111 (888-277-0111). Appistry and the Appistry logo are registered trademarks of Appistry, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. About Interface21 Interface21 is a leading provider of trusted open source software for mission-critical enterprise applications. Interface21 created and sustains the development of the Spring Framework, the leading Java[TM] and Java EE[TM] application framework. Through the Spring family of products, Interface21 has helped hundreds of organizations, including some of the world's largest financial institutions and public sector clients, build and deploy mission-critical applications that boost developer productivity and increase enterprise ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . For more information, please visit http://www.interface21.com. |
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