Hi all - yes, to follow on to Tom's point, I am familiar with Gigaspaces. I am personally interested in River (and Blitz). Moreover I am wondering whether the community interested in the open-source Akka project might also be interested in the open-source River project.
Thanks -Patrick On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Tom Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Shay, > > Thanks for the email, it's good know that there are other options > available. I think that most people on this list are aware enough to > consider your companies offerings and judge their suitability for their > needs. > > Can I please remind everyone though that these lists are for discussing > Apache River (and Jini/Javaspaces/etc) user or dev issues and not really > channels just directing people to other products. > > If Gigaspaces are interested in getting involved with Apache River in some > way then we would all really welcome working something out, there's probably > much we can offer each other. > > Best regards, > > Tom > > On 23 Oct 2011 22:42, "Shay Hassidim" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Patrick, >> See: >> http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/SBP/Scala+Integration >> >> Note that GigaSpaces provide free edition that support up to 2 different >> machines (with a clustered space that can be partitioned with a backup) up >> to 4 GB total space size with unlimited number of clients. This also >> includes free client side local cache. Gigaspace support also re-balancing >> and elasticity. See: >> http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/XAP8/Elastic+Processing+Unit >> >> Shay >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Patrick Logan [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 01:44 PM >> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Subject: jini / javaspaces wrt scala and akka >> >> Hi all, >> >> I was involved in a jini/javaspaces project five years ago, with good >> success. Recently I've been trying Scala including the Akka "actors" >> library. >> >> Akka has promise but has fewer capabilities than Jini and Javaspaces, >> and is certainly less mature. >> >> I am wondering if anyone on the River list has been using Akka with or >> without Scala? >> >> Might folks see River as a more mature, capable system worthy of a >> revival now that Scala and Akka are attracting a lot of interest in a >> related distributed programming model? >> >> Has anyone tried Scala with River (or related services such as Bllitz)? >> >> -Patrick >> >> >> >
