Posted by Laurent Cohen, Thursday January 31 2008 @ 08:16AM EST
Changes in this version:
New APIs were added to the J2EE connector to receive submission status events.
The capability to disable monitoring and management features in nodes and servers was added.
Several minor bugs were fixed.
Some refactoring of the server APIs was performed, for a greater reusability and modularity.
About JPPF:
the Java Parallel Processing Framework is a grid computing toolkit for Java that makes it easy to run applications in parallel, and speed up their execution by orders of magnitude.
Write once, deploy once, execute everywhere!
JPPF has many outstanding features:
a JPPF grid can be up and running in minutes
highly scalable, distributed framework for the execution of Java tasks
leverages JCA 1.5 to integrate with leading J2EE application servers
easy programming model that abstracts the complexity of distributed and parallel processing
graphical and programmatic tools for fine-grained monitoring and administration
reliability through redundancy, recovery and failover capabilities
a set of fully documented sample applications, demonstrating the use of JPPF on real-life problems
very flexible and non-constraining open-source licensing
and more ....
More information is available on the JPPF.org web site.
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