2009 is set to be the year of cloud computing with web applications finally able to take advantage of this highly dynamic infrastructure. With a great deal of volatility in both server loads and budgetary considerations, cloud computing is poised to help enterprises weather the rapidly changing requirements of today’s business needs. Resin 4.0 will help web applications and beyond scale to the clouds.

Our engineering team is busy preparing the Resin 4.0 release. Our main goal for this release is Java EE Web Profile TCK compliance, but there’s also a whole new dynamic cluster and distributed cache/deployment/session infrastructure in place. Another feature to keep an eye out for is Caucho’s Eclipse plug-in which has been a popular request over the years. It will soon be installable from directly within Eclipse.

In response to customer feedback about, we plan to consolidate minor revisions to one major revision,. As a result, expect 4.0 to be available around June 2009. Changes will include existing feature improvement plus the addition of many of new features. The three major categories to look forward to are:

• Cloud Computing based Clustering
• Vastly improved PHP performance
• WebBeans and OSGi

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A major redesign for Resin 4.0 is refactoring the clustering architecture and code to support dynamic and virtual servers natively. This redesign takes into consideration ISPs’ shift towards increased flexibility to add and remove servers to handle load spikes. Resin will also offer a distributed, replicated cache infrastructure that grows and shrinks with the size of your dynamic cluster. A redesign of our clustered sessions and load balancing had to take place for this added flexibility.
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In less than 3 weeks, February 4 - 6, 2009, will be Caucho’s second training class. Our first class was such a success that we decided to hold four more classes in San Francisco, one in New York and one in London. What’s better than starting 2009 with sharpening your Resin administration skills! System administrators, engineers, developers and IT managers should attend this insightful and hands-on training to master the knowledge of managing, installing and configuring Resin. If you’re unable to attend this course, please see our listing of other 2009 dates.
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Held in Las Vegas at Caesar’s Palace on March 18-20, 2009. This will be Caucho’s first booth at TheServerSide.com symposium. We are excited to share the benefits of Caucho products with the attending Java professionals. Steve Montal (CEO) will be speaking and Emil Ong (Chief Evangelist) and Theresa Nguyen (Director of Sales & Marking) will be in attendance. Please feel free to email us to set up a meeting with us during these dates if you are based in Vegas or are attending the conference.
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Held in San Francisco on June 2 - 5, 2009. Caucho will have a booth at JavaOne for the fourth year and we look forward to meeting you during the conference. Most of our staff will be in attendance including Scott Ferguson and Emil Ong. Feel free to email us to set up a meeting with our developers or sales team during JavaOne to discuss your deployment.
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Caucho has been a leading player in making the new WebBeans standard a reality. This tutorial by Scott Ferguson shows how to use WebBeans to inject beans based on interface. The first of three articles on WebBeans, it shows how to use this leading edge technology today with the first-of-its-kind implementation included with Resin.
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