Terracotta announces JSR107 JCACHE Java specification

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Terracotta, provider of in-memory technologies for enterprise big data, announced at #JavaOne the completion of the public review phase of JSR107 JCACHE Java Specification.

Terracotta said, it provides a common way for Java programs to create, access, update and remove entries from caches.

With final approval expected later this fall, the JSR107 specification will allow developers to program to a standard API, instead of being tied to a single vendor, eliminating a major inhibitor to the mass adoption of in-memory technology.

Greg Luck, chief technology officer of Terracotta and founder of Ehcache, said: "Terracotta also announced that BigMemory, its flagship in-memory platform for managing big, fast data, will be fully compliant with the specification early next year. In-memory technology is great for building a scalable infrastructure for enterprise Java environments."

"Using distributed caching, it will be easy for developers to linearly scale the performance and capacity of the storage in their big data environments. JSR107 makes it simpler than ever to integrate distributed caching into Java enterprise applications," added Luck.

By standardizing the programming API for use in caching in enterprise Java environments, JSR107 represents an important breakthrough for the Java community.

Previously, Java developers would experience increased complexity and significant coding costs to support vendor-specific APIs for basic storage and retrieval to and from caches. Additionally, ISVs faced challenges to support multiple, different caching implementations on a plug-n-play basis.

Now, customers and ISVs can use a very high quality, standard API to write their applications to work with a wide number of vendor implementations to achieve maximum portability, added the release.