Posted by Laurent Cohen, Tuesday May 06 2008 @ 08:56AM EDT
In this version:
A powerful new feature allows users to specify on which nodes a set of tasks can be executed, by applying an execution policy against the nodes. Read more...
JPPF can now use alternate serialization schemes, allowing the use of non-serializable classes and 3rd-party libraries. Read more...
An new integration sample demonstrates how to integrate the JPPF J2SE client into a Servlet/JSP container such as Apache Tomcat 5.5 or 6.0.
Clear initialization messages were added to the JPPF server and node components.
A major upgrade of the communication framework brings increased performance and a smaller memory footprint.
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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