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This is a free event open to the general public. So, please forward this announcement on to other interested parties. The online meeting announcement is here: https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=5425 18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google 19:00-20:30 Stateful Applications that Scale Like Stateless Ones talk by Orion Letizi TALK DESCRIPTION Within every innocent web application lies a sleeping monster. There comes a time when every successful web application outgrows its single-machine architecture. Whether for high-availability, scalability, or both, the adult web application must grow to live on more than one application server. That's when the latent beast strikes: the State Monster. The most recent accepted wisdom about solving application state problems in a scaled-out production architecture is to make your web application "stateless"—i.e., externalize all application state out of the application tier so that any application server can serve any user request. Unfortunately for the owners of such applications, making it "stateless" is hard to do, corrupts the programming and data model of the application, and pushes the problem out to other pieces of infrastructure that are ill-equipped to handle it. Stateless programming is hard on the application developer, hard on the application infrastructure, and hard on the application. There must be a better way to write business applications. In this talk, we will discuss the current "stateless" application paradigm, its shortcomings, and a new alternative using Terracotta's open-source availability and scalability technology for the Java Virtual Machine. Please be sure to preregister at http://sv-web-jug.eventbrite.com/ so you will be eligible for our raffle. We will be Using Jim Weaver's JavaFX Spinning Wheel for our raffle. You can learn more about the project at: http://learnjavafx.typepad.com/weblog/2008/01/spinning-wheel.html Currently, the prizes include: * IntelliJ IDEA license from JetBrains * Ajax Security from Addison Wesley * Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components from Apress * Filthy Rich Clients from Addison Wesley (2 copies) * Professional Hibernate from Wrox Press * Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework from Wrox Press * Professional Ajax 2nd Edition from Wrox Press This meeting was organized by the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG and is being co-hosted by the Silicon Valley JUG. -- | Michael "Van" Riper | http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/ | http://www.linkedin.com/in/vanriper ---- | Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]