Cloud Hosting

Caucho, in its pursuit of craftsmanship, created a Java EE clustering solution that just works in the Amazon EC2 cloud from end to end.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 05, 2012

Caucho, in its pursuit of craftsmanship, wanted a Java EE clustering solution that just works in the cloud from end to end. As part of this effort, Resin clustering was modified to easily work in the confines of EC2. The true battle was getting the operational predictability of Resin clustering in an Amazon EC2 environment. Resin clustering relies on configured ahead of time topology for its triad hub to work in a dynamic cloud environment like EC2. A solution was found that combines the operation predictability of Resin with the advanced virtualization of Amazon EC2.

Cauchos engineers use Amazon EC2 Dynamic IP to securely exchange clustering topology. This allows for the combination of Amazons dynamic IAAS environment with the operational predictable, Java EE clustering of Resin Pro. Dynamic spokes and solid, fault tolerant triad hub are key to Resin Pros operational predictability, and cloud elasticity.

Cauchos clustering support also offers remote deployment of configuration as well as Java EE applications. This allows deployment to the entire cluster running in Amazon EC2 with one simple command.

With Amazon EC2 you can spin up more instances running Resin application server (link goes to demo video). The new dynamic Resin nodes get the same running applications that were deployed to the cluster automatically. This is the concept of deploy once. Cloud deployment is not a complicated after thought, but baked right into Resin Pro clustering, and works in Amazon EC2 as well as other virtualization 2.0 environments.

Scott Ferguson, Chief Architect of Caucho Technology said the following: Our philosophy has always been it should all 'just work'. With Resin you get a complete web solution. Resin pieces are designed to work together, and designed to support production deployments. To support cloud, you need clustering that works with Java EE and you need deploy once deployment that works with the cloud. Using Resin means you value craftsmanship. Discerning, informed organizations realize an application server needs to support production cloud deployments.

Resin runs over 4.7 million global sites, bested NginX and Apache httpd in performance, and was named a cool vendor and a visionary by a leading industry analyst in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Resins web server, included as part of a Java EE certified package, features: Static file handling, Reverse proxy, HTTP proxy cache, SSL with OpenSSL, Load balancing, URL rewrite, CGI and FastCGI. Resin 4 was the first Java EE Web Profile certified Java application server. Resin 4 was built from the ground up around Java Dependency Injection (CDI). Resin is over 13 years old, yet it has kept up with the times. Resin 4 has been optimized to work in cloud computing environments like Amazon EC2.

The addition of our Resin admin tools, Java application monitoring, and our EC2 cloud/clustering support really helps organizations to migrate to the cloud. It makes managing and deploying to dozens of application servers almost as easy as managing just one. Ferguson added.

Read this article:
Resin 4 Pro Clustering and “Deploy Once” Runs in the Amazon EC2 Cloud - Resin Java EE Server Just Works in Amazon EC2