We're proud to announce the beginning of a new training program at Caucho. We've partnered with Marakana to do the first course, which will be on Resin Administration. Emil Ong, a Caucho Engineer, will be teaching the course October 22-24 at Marakana's San Francisco facilities. The space is limited to 10 students in order to assure a good student:teacher ratio. If you sign up by Sept 7, you'll get a nice discount, so it's worth your while to sign up soon to get a spot.

There's a page here with more information about the course, including a detailed outline of topics to be covered. You can also sign up for the course from that page.

Our new development release Resin 3.2.0 is ready at at http://caucho.com/download with PDF documentation at http://caucho.com/download/resin-3.2-reference.pdf. Resin 3.2.0 focused on foundation refactoring for the 3.2.x branch's development.

The 3.2.x branch has a full road-map including the upcoming JavaEE 6 specifications. 3.2.0 lays down the
prep work by refactoring the fundamental thread and socket handling needed for Ajax/Comet support and the upcoming Jabber (XMPP) capabilities. The new keepalive and comet threading has been tested to 25,000 simultaneous connections.

As part of the 3.1.6 checkout process we benchmarked Quercus against PHP 5.2 with APC, and it looks like we're a consistent 25-30% faster than PHP with an accelerator.

Quercus was enabled with APC, a standard accelerator for PHP. Normal mod_php is much slower.

Emil points out that Resin is on top in the May Netcraft survey.

According to Netcraft, 343,272 domains are now running Resin, more than any Java server. This is very cool.

Resin 3.1.6 is now available at the download page.

The release notes are at resin-3.1.6.

The change log is at changes.xtp.