I have just published Amanuensis on GitHub: https://github.com/tristantarrant/amanuensis Amanuensis is a clustered IndexWriter for Infinispan which leverages JGroups’ channel multiplexing to stream index changes from slave nodes to a master node. To use Amanuensis, add the appropriate dependency to your pom.xml: You also need to tell Infinispan to use Amanuensis’ JGroups channel lookup which enables [...]

I have just release version 0.3.5 of my Cassandra Connection Pool. It contains a couple of bug-fixes when setting configuration properties via the generic set() method and much improved logging: all logs are prefixed with the pool’s name, periodic activity is lowered at trace from debug, and extra logging is done on pool exhaustion. I [...]

Cassandra Connection Pool 0.3.3 includes a few bugfixes and some logging (at debug level) for helping to identify problems with validation.

A few days ago I release version 0.3.2 of Cassandra Connection Pool. It fixes a couple of bugs.

I have just released version 0.3.0 of my Cassandra Connection Pool. New features in this release are: automatic host discovery with connection failover datasource implementation cleanups and bugfixes

I have just added a new project to my github repo: CoheSiVe From the silly capitalization you can already guess that it’s a CSV library. It differs from other libraries I’ve seen in that it doesn’t attempt to read the whole file in one go, but is uses an event-driven architecture so that your application [...]

The Cassandra CacheStore will be included in the Infinispan 4.2, so that people won’t have to wait until 5.0.

Since I have been accepted as an Infinispan contributor, I have committed my first complete implementation of the Cassandra CacheStore to Infinispan’s trunk. This means that it will be included in Infinispan 5.0 whenever that will be released. In the meantime I have migrated all the code into my repository and have released a 0.0.2 [...]

I have just released the code for Catwalk a Java Annotation Processor for automatically generating derived domain model classes. Supposing you have a JPA Entity which you want to pass to a servlet stripped of certain private / internal properties, adding a few annotations to the getters you want to expose allows Catwalk to generate [...]

Recently I helped configure a system for an application running under Tomcat on Linux with very large memory requirements: a minimum heap of 6GB with a maximum of 11GB. The JVM was initially configured to use the Parallel garbage collector. With this configuration garbage collection of the “Young Generation” was fine, but the “Old Generation” [...]