Terracotta Sponsors Webinar for Spring Framework Developers; Surging Demand for Spring, Huge Response to JavaOne 2006 Presentation Spur Web Broadcast of Spring Scalability Solution.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Terracotta, Inc., a leader in delivering groundbreaking solutions for enterprise Java scalability, today announced it is sponsoring a Webinar for Spring Framework Developers -- "Transparently Clustered Spring" -- on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. To enroll, visit the Terracotta Website at www.terracottatech.com.

Designed for application developers, the Webinar responds to surging demand for the Spring framework, the number one choice for simplifying Java development. The Webinar also builds on "Transparently Clustered Spring," the popular technical presentation given by Terracotta's Jonas Boner at JavaOne 2006. More than 3,000 developers attended Spring technical sessions at JavaOne 2006 and Boner's session drew a standing-room-only crowd.

"Spring developers are used to Spring making things easy. Now, those developers want a Spring-centric alternative to spending weeks or months writing clustering code by hand to make applications in production scale efficiently beyond a single node," said Ari Zilka, founder and CTO at Terracotta. "They want an alternative to rewriting parts of the application and to abusing databases and messaging services, all of which disturbs the domain model and breaks object identity. That alternative is transparently clustered Spring."

Added Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework and CEO at Interface21, "Spring is about simplicity. By clustering the Java Virtual Machine under the Spring framework, Terracotta for Spring aligns with our mission by simplifying the scalability of Spring applications."

In this Webinar, attendees will hear from Jonas Boner, senior software engineer at Terracotta, and Rob Harrop, core developer of the Spring Framework and consultant with Interface 21. The Webinar will be hosted by Gary Nakamura, Terracotta's vice president of sales, and demonstrations will be given by Sreeni Iyer, senior manager for field engineering at Terracotta.

Attendees will learn:

--How to cluster a Spring application, transparently and naturally, with no changes to application code.

--How to guarantee high-availability, eliminate single points of failure, and make sure that customer SLAs are met.

--How clustering the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) under the Spring Framework vastly simplifies performance tuning for Spring users.

Terracotta for Spring provides an extremely reliable runtime environment for Spring applications without complicating those applications or harming scalability. Single VM Spring applications become clustered applications at load time, by simply configuring Terracotta for Spring to include the application context of choice. Terracotta for Spring generates significant time and cost benefits for organizations working with the Spring framework, while providing the highest levels of linear scalability and total fault tolerance.

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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