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Peter Veentjer

by Peter Veentjer / Aug 25, 2013

Controlled Partitioning

One of the cool features of the soon to be released Hazelcast 3.1 version, is the ability to control the partition of certain DistributedObjects like the IAtomicLong or ILock. This makes it easy to collocate data and this will improve performance and scalability since there will be a stronger...

by Peter Veentjer / Aug 14, 2013

XML Variables

One of the new features in Hazelcast 3.0 are XML variables which provided a lot of flexibility for Hazelcast xml based configuration. Imagine that you have the following configuration: <hazelcast> <group> <name>group1</name> <password>password1</password> </group> </hazelcast> As you can see the group name and password are hard coded. Apart from...

by Peter Veentjer / Aug 2, 2013

User Context

One of the new features of Hazelcast 3 is the ability to pass user-context to a HazelcastInstance. This is very useful if you need to access dependencies, but only have a HazelcastInstance available. Imagine that you have some kind of EchoService on each member of your Hazelcast cluster: public...