Can Hazelcast be used as a cache for *perl* web apps? - java

I am looking at quickly implementing a hazelcast in-memory cache for a web application.
The web application is written in perl...
...so is there a way to access a hazelcast Map via perl?
Or, in worst case, must I write a thin hazelcast client in java, and call that from perl?
Thanks
Steve

I'd suggest looking at Cache::Memcached as this post to the hazelnut google groups seems to imply that someone else has already done this using this module.
For other solutions, you could continue searching on cpan for Memcache. Or for a non distributed solution, can just go with the core library Memoize.

If there a memcached client for Perl? If so you can use the memcached protocol to connect to Hazelcast.
Chris

Hazelcast could be used through its REST Api so you need a JVM with Java library to support this feature.

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In one of our recent projects, we have decided to use a message based solution to integrate an existing .Net app to a new JAVA based application. There is a requirement to not use a Application Server. So I am trying to look into some alternative options. Currently we are planning to use ActiveMQ as the JMS provider. Also the Java application needs to interact with an backend database. So, when trying to figure out options, I found that the Spring framework would be quite helpful. It appears that Spring may need some additional components (e.g, Atomikos) to provide transaction support for JMS & JDBC operations.
I am trying to limit the user of additional components as much as possible.
So, Is this the right approach to use ActiveMQ with Spring. If so, can I just use the built-in transaction module available in Spring to support transactions?
Any advice would be very helpful?
Leo
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Keep the integration through MQ and WS. More tight coupling may lead to problems and complexity.
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What features of BlazeDS are not avaliable on CURRENT Google App Engine?

So here it is that BlazeDS will totally play on GAE
BlazeDS Version: 3.2.0.3978 Status:
COMPATIBLE To workaround an
EMFException thrown by
flex.messaging.io.amf.AbstractAmfInput,
follow Martin Zoldano's workarounds at
http://martinzoldano.blogspot.com/2009/04/appengine-adobe-blazeds-fix.html.
You will need to enable sessions to
get BlazeDS working.
But I wonder does it mean that messages from the server to the client, server push notifications from BlaseDS (I mean we connect to server from flex client but do not require data and server sends data to us when it wants), and BTW does any one know where to get a tutorial on doing that (Flex + BlazeDS)?
Are there any more features of Blaze v 3.2 that are under question?
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I need to connect my .Net application to somebody else's JMX agent. I've read that this is simply not the done thing and I should use soap or practically anything else. As this is just not going to happen, are there any libraries or interop techniques out there that can help me? I'm only interested in the simple things like invoking a remote operation or returning a string result.
.NET is really not the technology to use to talk to JMX. JMX is a builtin standard that is part of Java but is pretty specific to running in Java. I would assume that you cannot control the application you are trying to consume since you indicate you are trying to use someone else's JMX agent.
In that case, you might want to consider writing your application or part of it in Java. That is the best way to get access to the JMX. If that is not an option you do have a few things you could look into:
1) Check to see if the application you are connecting to can expose the data as something other than JMX. It is usually not hard to allow access via web services to the same data.
2) Write a small Java wrapper that talks to the JMX server and exposes web services. This allows you to query the web services which in turn go over JMX.
3) There are other agents that JMX has to allow it to talk with different technologies. You could use something like the SNMP agent and use SNMP traps from .NET. More information on that can be found here: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/management/snmp.html
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I've done this in the past from Perl as part of a system administration task. Its not pretty and its unmaintainable if the JMX interfaces are changing a lot. But.. if you need a quick and dirty hack - this is it!
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