Java Makes Scalable Bed Fellows

The first time I ran across Terracotta was in a Java and Open Source Roundtable that I moderated and Terracotta's Amit Pandey participated in. More recently, Terracotta's Ari Zilka did a Q&A with Deirdre Blake about the challenges ahead for distributed computing. Watch for that in the upcoming November 2007 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Which explains in part why Terracotta and Kaazing's joint announcement caught my eye. The official word is that Kaazing, which focuses on real-time Web 2.0 solutions for Java EE, and Terracotta, which provides infrastructure software for and scalable high availability for Java applications, have announced a strategic alliance to deliver scalable and real-time Web 2.0 technology for financial systems, online gaming, online sports, and news broadcasting applications. Forget the financial stuff. What got me going was the real-time online game part.

Through this partnership, Terracotta plans on expanding its capability to deliver its Java availability and scalability to the Web 2.0 Rich Internet Application world where AJAX rules the roost in terms of client-side platforms. Sounds fine, but lets get back to the real-time games.

-- Jonathan Erickson

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