Terracotta Kicks Off International Java Tour to Promote Drop-in Scalability of Open Source Frameworks.

Terracotta Presents JVM-level Clustering Using Network Attached Memory at Java User Groups Across North America and Europe

SAN FRANCISCO -- Terracotta, Inc., a leader in delivering groundbreaking solutions for enterprise Java scalability, today embarked on an international tour of Java User Groups (JUGs) to promote drop-in scalability of popular open source frameworks, such as Spring, Struts, and containers including Tomcat, Geronimo, and GlassFish. Terracotta executives and engineers will meet with developers throughout North America and Europe to examine new approaches to injecting high availability in web applications with growing loads Co without sacrificing performance and scalability.

Currently, confirmed on the tour but with more cities to be added, Terracotta will visit the following JUGs in the USA: NYJavaSIG in New York City; NoVAJUG in Northern Virginia; Java SIG in Palo Alto, CA; Java SIG in Oakland, CA; CJUG in Chicago, IL; and AJUG in Atlanta, GA. In Europe, the company plans to present at: JUG Sardegna Onlus in Sardinia, JUG Ancona in Ancona and Marche, JUG Torino in Turin, JUG Milano in Milan, JUG Padova in Padova, Italy; Javaforum in Sweden; Javagruppen in Demark; Polish JUG in Poland; JavaSvet in Serbia and Montenegro; JUGS in Stuttgart, Germany; CZJUG in Prague, Czech Republic; and JUG Ukraine in Ukraine. Details on upcoming JUG visits can be found at: www.terracottatech.com/events.shtml.

"Terracotta recently visited the Philly JUG and shared insightful expertise on clustering the JVM. We are one of the largest JUGs in the US with over 1,000 members from over 80 companies, and it's great to have a speaker like Terracotta, where so many of our members can instantly apply new coding practices in their business life," said Dave Fecak, Philly JUG president."Our members really got engaged about stateful versus stateless, and how you can get clustering to have a stateful application design."

Building on the success from past JUG meetings, Terracotta will use practical, hands-on examples to guide developers in clustering. Experts will address stateful versus stateless application design, and how clustering the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) allows a stateful object model to scale efficiently in a high-availability deployment environment. The main benefit for developers comes from learning how to keep application state in plain Java objects in an application's heap while avoiding the pitfalls of Java serialization. This makes applications easier to code, scale, and remain highly available. More information on stateful clustering can be found in an article written by Ari Zilka, founder and CTO, Terracotta, at: www.devx.com/Java/Article/32603/0.

JUGs interested in inviting Terracotta to meetings should contact Ari Zilka at [e-mail].

About Terracotta, Inc.

Terracotta, Inc. delivers plug-in capacity and availability for enterprise Java at runtime with no application code changes. Terracotta gives application developers and operators substantial advantages in development, deployment, and management that translate directly to faster time to market, increased return on investment, and lower total cost of ownership. Terracotta customers include industry leaders in the financial services and telecom sectors. Founded in 2003, Terracotta is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco. More information on Terracotta can be found at www.terracottatech.com.

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