Blitz JavaSpaces / News: Recent posts

The location for project source code is: http://github.com/dancres/blitzjavaspaces

Updated DB/Java for persistence, a revised Dashboard, additional statistics and concurrency improvements.

Comes with Jini bundled, no need for a separate install and now configures the concurrent-util libraries appropriately for the JDK.

We are currently preparing 2.0-alpha2, current highlights include:

- Porting to the backport-utilconcurrent which will allows Blitz to take advantage of the JDK 5 concurrency optimizations whilst remaining compatible with JDK 1.4

- Revised blocking architecture which reduces the number of threads and increases performance of dispatching new writes to waiting takers or readers.

- ServiceUI will be included... read more

After long and detailed discussions with testers/potential users the decision has been taken to suspend development of the current FT edition.

FT will be replaced with a new (as yet unnamed) edition which will support a broader range of fault-tolerant/clustering requirements ellicited from the above discussions.

The new development branch (starting with 1.03-exec-4) contains support for JINI 2.1 including the JavaSpace05 proposal and an additional experimental API for accelerating JavaSpace client performance.

These builds fix a number of deadlocks, increase performance and address the installer conflict issues.

Idev and Rep builds to follow