Portable Objects

Portable Objects: Best Practices Presentation (London SIG)

I just came back from London last Sunday, where I gave a talk on best practices for Portable Objects implementation and why POF should be serialization format of choice even in pure Java applications. Gene Gleyzer, lead Coherence architect, was also there and gave a talk on the new features in 3.5, with major topics being partitioned backing map and POF reflection. Finally, Rob Varga presented annotation-driven POF serializer generator, so it is safe to say that POF was the team of the whole event. Gotta love it :)

I had a great time meeting everyone during and after the event, and hope to see you again soon. Brian was a great host (as usual), but what most people probably don't know is that he is also a great cook (although, I still think you should've cooked lamb a bit more ;)

I also had a chance to meet Rob and Ivan from Evident Software, and Ivan was kind enough to show me a ClearStone Live demo before heading to The Ship for drinks and dinner. I was pretty impressed -- if you are looking for a Coherence monitoring solution, definitely check it out.

Alas, for those who couldn't make it to the SIG, as well as for those who were there but need a refresher, here are my slides from the event.

Introduction

For many reasons, I have finally decided to bite the bullet and start blogging about Coherence, Spring/Spring.NET and other topics near and dear to my heart.

The good news is that there is plenty to blog about: Coherence 3.5 is about to be released, I am working on a Coherence book which is pretty close to being done, and I have created a number of useful Coherence-related tools that I want to write about and share with the Coherence community at large.

The bad news is that there is only so much time, and with everything that's on my plate at the moment it will be extremely hard to find the time to blog about everything I want to blog about, but I will do my best.

The first real post related to the Portable Objects talk I gave few weeks ago at the Coherence SIG in London is coming shortly, and I'm hoping to have another one on sequential identity generation with and for Coherence up tomorrow at the latest.

After that, I have a number of topics that I want to write about:

• Portable Object Format (POF) in general
• New POF reflection features added in Coherence 3.5, as well as PofExtractor and PofUpdater that are built on top of it
• Spring and Spring.NET interop using POF
• Object-level access control with Coherence
• Password-based encryption support for .NET Coherence*Extend clients
• Data validation using Coherence Map Triggers
• etc...

Well, that should be enough for the introduction. Welcome to my blog :)