Terracotta

Last week I attended a talk by Terracotta founder and CTO Ari Zilka at the London Wicket User Group.
I had gone there because my technical architect and Sanjay had said Wicket was a good thing to learn about. I did get some idea about Wicket, but I was floored by Terracotta (www.terracotta.org).

I had heard about Terracotta from the guys on my project team and had visited the website. But I could not generate enough interest to sit and write some code. But after the talk, and especially after seeing the demo application, I had better idea about things. Today I finally sat down and wrote a few sample programs to try out Terracotta. It was fun and it was easy to do things from the comfort of Eclipse.

It was fun to able to take simple applications and cluster them with minimal effort. I wanted to try something bigger, so I promptly tried to cluster a Jython console - I ran into some errors. It says it cannot share the InteractiveConsole object for some reason - I have a big stack trace that I need to navigate to figure out exactly why.

But I can definitely see some applications for Terracotta in my work. I just need to convince my folks that it can be applied.