Terracotta, Inc., a leader in delivering groundbreaking solutions for enterprise Java scalability, announced it is hosting a free Webinar for Apache Struts framework developers – “Clustering your Struts Applications” – on Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. To enroll, visit the Terracotta website at www.terracottatech.com/webinar_struts.shtml.

Designed for application developers, the Webinar brings together renowned Java developers, Don Brown and Jonas Bonér, to discuss the statefulness of the Struts framework and varying solutions to clustering Struts when running enterprise applications. The Webinar is part of a series of Clustered Java Virtual Machine (JVM) events where Terracotta demonstrates practical integration with popular open source projects. Former Webinars on Tomcat and Spring can be downloaded at www.terracottatech.com/events.shtml.

“Terracotta’s emergence in the clustering space has the potential to make Struts easier for everyone to use. Clustering Java has historically been difficult, but if Struts can deliver on the promise of simplifying web application development, even in the presence of clustered deployments, our community needs to hear about it. There is still more testing to be done, but if all goes well, then this synergistic combination makes life easier for web developers,” said Don Brown.

In this Webinar, attendees will hear from Jonas Bonér, senior engineer at Terracotta and creator of the AspectWerkz AOP framework, and Don Brown, committer of the Struts Framework and maven for Struts 2.

Attendees will learn:
- How to cluster a Struts application without O/R mapping or complex data management infrastructure
- How to guarantee high availability, eliminate single points of failure, and ensure that customer SLAs are met
- How clustering at the JVM layer under the Struts Framework vastly simplifies development and performance tuning for the Struts community.

Terracotta makes clustering Struts applications fast and simple, without sacrificing application reliability. Terracotta for Struts helps enterprises avoid unnecessary O/R mapping by clustering Plain Old Java Objects. Uniquely, the technology does not rely on Java serialization, nor does it call on users to do so. This means that stateful applications built on Struts can be scaled without compromising performance.