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Typed ask for Akka

May 21, 2013 5:42 AM by Adam Warski

Akka is a great tool for writing distributed applications. One thing that always surprised me though is that while being based on Scala, which is a very type-safe language, the elementary construct in Akka – an actor – is not really type safe. You can send any message to any actor, and get back any object in reply. The upcoming 2.2 release of Akka will contain an experimental implementation of typed channels, which use macros to ensure type-safety in actor communication; but before that is final, here’s a …

Storing arrays in Infinispan 5.3 without wrapper objects!

May 20, 2013 6:22 AM by Galder Zamarreño

As we head towards the latter part of Infinispan 5.3 series, we're doing a series of blog posts where we provide more detailed information of some of the key features in this release. As part of Infinispan 5.3.0.Beta1, we added the ability to store data directly in Infinispan which previously would have required using a custom wrapper object, e.g. arrays. The way Infinispan supports storing these type of objects is by allowing a custom Equivalence function to be configured for keys and/or values.…

This week in JBoss (16 May): Wildfly 8 Alpha1 about to be released

May 19, 2013 8:29 AM by Heiko Braun

The first Wildfly 8 release has already been tagged and is about to be released any time soon! Middleware Rumblings Red Hat JBoss Middleware is faster than an 855 foot Sky Jump Eric does introduce you to our new Red Hat JBoss Rock Star. His name is Radical Rich and he will stop short of nothing to bring the message home to you how awesome and fast the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) is. Compensating Transactions: When ACID is too much (Part 1: Introduction) ACID transaction…

Just how fast is Red Hat JBoss Middleware?

May 18, 2013 5:21 AM by Eric D. Schabell

I would like to introduce you to our new Red Hat JBoss Rock Star. His name is Radical Rich and he will stop short of nothing to bring the message home to you how awesome and fast the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) is. Without further delay, we bring you Radical Rich! Red Hat JBoss EAP is faster than an 855 foot Sky Jump.

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