Continuent.Org Open Source Portal Launches; New Community Entirely Dedicated to High Availability and Scalability Services for Databases and Related Technologies.GRENOBLE, France -- Continuent.org, a new open source portal and community dedicated to high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and scalability services for databases and other closely related technologies, officially launched today. Continuent.org was launched to host a number of projects related to providing an open source solution for high availability and scalability that is fully database and application server agnostic. Its mission is to provide a deep framework for solving the issues of high availability and scalability often associated with databases and that can be used in a heterogeneous database environment or tailored to a specific database. Continuent.org is currently backed by a team of eight full-time engineers who have a mission to create industrial quality open source technology and support its community. Current projects at Continuent.org include: --Sequoia: High availability middleware layer, core controller, JDBC driver This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. , text management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. , documentation and more. Sequoia is a continuation of the C-JDBC project (http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org). As a result, the migration should be seamless to current users and contributors. Sequoia has had more than 50,000 downloads to date, with more than 30 active contributors and a mailing list An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new of nearly 300 subscribers. --Hedera: A modular wrapping of group communications so that developers have more choices beyond JGroups. Other group communication libraries such as Appia will be available soon with Hedera. --Carob: A C++ client library and API that implements the Sequoia protocol with the controller and an ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. driver for Sequoia --Oak: The Eclipse plug-in for management console functions Among the newest open source additions at the site will be a C++ API and an ODBC driver for non-Java clients, as well as a powerful Eclipse plug-in for the management console. The core technology is also greatly improved with a complete redesign of transaction scheduling for a better write parallelism, along with an upcoming rewrite of documentation. The Continuent portal is structured to offer top support infrastructure to the community. Continuent.org projects use a newer version of GForge and integrate JIRA JIRA Japan Industries Association of Radiological Systems (trade organization) JIRA Japan Investor Relations Association for issue tracking. With JIRA, a more comfortable and flexible system, developers can watch the progress of issues, vote on their resolution and view the project roadmap. Continuent also provides a much more flexible environment to initiate or host new projects related to the Sequoia technology. The site can easily host more external contributions or projects related to the technology. "Continuent.org is committed to supporting its technology and community. Our staff is actively developing new versions and adding significant value on our open source projects. We look forward to our continued collaboration with existing community members and encourage new members to join," said Emmanuel Cecchet, project spokesperson. Continuent contributors have agreed to re-license the code under an Apache version 2 license. This will ease code re-use and facilitate contributions for every community member. Continuent.org is open for additional contributions. To learn more or to support the community, visit http://www.continuent.org. Apache is a trademark of The Apache Software Foundation (open source, body) Apache Software Foundation - (ASF) An umbrella consortium that manages the development of the Apache web server, dozens of XML- and Java-based projects (under the name Jakarta), the Ant build tool, the Geronimo J2EE server, the SpamAssassin anti-SPAM tool, and . Java, JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. 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