About HJUG

The Java User Groups Community is the meeting point for JUGs, helping promote the expansion of the worldwide Java Community. Here, you'll see fresh and timely online content targeted for Java User Groups, and share your experience with other JUGs. JUG leaders and JUG members - from expert developers to Java newbies - can share information about creating, joining and running a JUG. And because of a strong partnership between the JUGs Community and Sun Microsystems Technology Outreach Group, you'll also have direct access to Sun's best JUG resources, from speakers to information to giveaways.

HJUG is dedicated to the use of the JavaTM Technology. We are one of the many Java User Groups worldwide. HJUG thanks Rice University Computer Science Department, Professors Dan Wallach and Robert 'Corky' Cartwright for their continuous sponsorship.

HJUG also thanks the Computer Science Technology Department of Houston Community College System, especially Abbas Alamnehe.
Meetings and Announcements

Clustered Architecture Patterns: Delivering Scalability and Availability

July 30th, 2008

Developing enterprise apps that run on server clusters is hard. Current approaches are hard on the application developer, demanding on the application infrastructure, and suffer from serious performance and scalability limits.

This session introduces Network-Attached Memory, Terracotta's open source technology that transparently extends Java heap and the Java Memory Model across multiple JVMs, and shows how to use it to develop simple, yet scalable applications.

The talk will also discuss actual deployments where Network-Attached Memory is currently delivering HA and scale, dramatically reducing load on expensive databases.

Speaker: Orion Letizi

Orion Letizi is a co-founder and software engineer at Terracotta. He has worked in enterprise Java for nearly ten years. Before Terracotta, he was a software architect at Walmart.com.

Please RSVP

RSVP by going to http://hjug07302008.eventbrite.com/ We need an accurate head count in order to know how many chairs to set up and how much pizza to order. We have 50 tickets available, and more can be added if needed. It is also a secure location and this helps us keep the event secure as well by having a list of attendees.

Meeting Location: PROS Pricing

PROS Pricing 10th Floor Cafeteria
Meeting attendees can park in the parking garage in any space marked as “Visitor”. They then need to go to the 3rd floor of the parking garage and walk across the cross-walk. There is a bank of elevators on the right that will take you to the 10th floor.

Meeting Sponsor

Terracotta
Sponsor Website: www.terracotta.org

Company Overview

Terracotta is infrastructure software that provides affordable and scalable high availability for Java applications. Companies use Terracotta to offload work from databases and application servers and to reduce their development efforts. Founded in 2003, Terracotta, Inc. is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco.

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