WebSphere's DynaCache Hibernate Caching Adapter

As WebSphere Application Server (especially 6.x) onwards, it supports JPA (Java Persistence APIs). Its default ORM tool is OpenJPA. It also supports easy plugging with other ORM tools. For distributed caching, WAS (WebSphere? Application Server) uses DynaCache for distributed caching and very useful in clustered environment. As it has pluggable caching architecture so any ORM tool can easily gets plugged with the ORM caching adapter.

As Hibernate is very famous and stable ORM tool. But it has an issues with WAS as it doesn't have a Hibernate caching adapter to plug with IBM's distributed caching framework.

So I decided to make WebSphere-Hibernate DynaCache adapter so that anyone can easily use the renowned Hibernate ORM.

Please visit my project at http://code.google.com/p/webspherehibernateadapter/ for more detail.

High Scalable and Distributed Architecture

This article describes how to achieve high scalability with Java EE EJB 3.0 and Spring Framework. Also how this hybrid solution can be scalable in a cloud space.

In an Enterprise world, Spring Framework with some standard ORM tool like Hibernate gained considerable acceptance as a light-weight architecture for mid size applications. Also in Java EE 5 specification, major changes has been done on component architecture, tried overcome the gaps like IoC, ORM etc.

Concept of IoC is still immature in the Java EE 5 and the flexibility, AOP, and relative strengths of Spring and ORM tool like Hibernate to further improve the productivity and quality of any web based applications. As JPA (part of Java EE 5) specification suggest pluggable design so we can use any ORM tool (compatible of JPA) in any application server like IBM WebSphere uses Apache OpenJPA as a default provider but Hibernate can easily be pluggable.

This article demonstrates how to build a highly scalable application with hybrid technology like EJB 3.0, Spring 3.0.x, and Hibernate. Also Spring Framework has its own remoting APIs and options but EJB is a standard specification and can easily be migrated across the application servers.
By designing a flexible and component architecture, the application will use the power of EJB 3.0, IoC & APO of Spring 3.0.x and ORM capability of Hibernate.

For more detail, visit my published article on theserverside website.