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Build grid-ready apps with ObjectGrid

In-memory database easily scales across multiple physical machines

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Tom Alcott (alcott@us.ibm.com), Consulting IT Specialist, IBM 
Larry Clark (clarry@us.ibm.com), Consultant, IBM 

04 Sep 2007

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ObjectGrid is a part of the WebSphere Extended Development Data Grid offering, but you can you install it as a standalone package as well. Learn the basics of installing and using this in-memory database for your Java™ applications. You'll see how to set it up to use one or more machines, and then walk through a series of sample applications that demonstrate its capabilities.

Objectives

  • Step through the standalone installation process of the WebSphere XD Data Grid (DG) ObjectGrid component, demonstrating ObjectGrid's simplicity and ease of installation.

  • Develop, deploy, and run a simple standalone application, which employs the ObjectGrid EntityManager API, in a single JVM.

  • Develop, install, and configure ObjectGrid as a standalone Java Platform Standard Edition (JSE) application, independent from the WebSphere XD runtime.

  • Develop, deploy, and install ObjectGrid applications to an ObjectGrid JSE cluster.

  • Configure a JSE cluster of ObjectGrid servers; this cluster will be composed of a catalog server process that maintains a catalog of the running ObjectGrid servers and a cluster of two application container servers, which will run a modified version of the ObjectGrid application that you will initially develop and deploy to a single JVM.

  • Deploy to WebSphere XD. Learn how to leverage the management and monitoring infrastructure in WebSphere XD for ObjectGrid-enabled applications.

  • Learn how to construct more complex applications employing multiple maps and complex queries. See several example applications that are more representative of real-world applications than the simple application used as an example for the portions of the tutorial that deal with the deployment and operational aspects of ObjectGrid.

Prerequisites

This tutorial assumes that you have some some basic knowledge of system administration on either Microsoft® Windows® XP or UNIX®, and are capable of using a simple IDE, such as Eclipse, to write and compile Java programs.


System requirements

The examples in this tutorial were developed using Windows XP Professional and SuSE Enterprise Server 10 Linux, but can be recreated on any supported WebSphere Extended Deployment operating system. Download the free trial version of ObjectGrid, a feature of the Data Grid Component of WebSphere Extended Deployment.



Duration

1 hour


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