Hazelcast is a clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform for Java.

With its various distributed data structures, distributed caching capabilities, elastic nature, memcache support, integration with Spring and Hibernate and more importantly with so many happy users, Hazelcast is feature-rich, enterprise-ready and developer-friendly in-memory data grid solution.

Features:

• Distributed implementations of java.util.{Queue, Set, List, Map}
• Distributed implementation of java.util.concurrency.locks.Lock
• Distributed implementation of java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService
• Distributed MultiMap for one-to-many relationships
• Distributed Topic for publish/subscribe messaging
• Synchronous (write-through) and asynchronous (write-behind) persistence
• Transaction support
• Socket level encryption support for secure clusters
• Second level cache provider for Hibernate
• Monitoring and management of the cluster via JMX
• Dynamic HTTP session clustering
• Support for cluster info and membership events
• Dynamic discovery, scaling, partitioning with backups and fail-over

Getting Started

See Getting Started Guide

Documentation

See documentation at www.hazelcast.com

Releases

Download from www.hazelcast.com

Or use Maven snippet:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.hazelcast</groupId>
    <artifactId>hazelcast</artifactId>
    <version>${hazelcast.version}</version>
</dependency>

Snapshot Releases

Maven snippet:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.hazelcast</groupId>
    <artifactId>hazelcast</artifactId>
    <version>${hazelcast.version}</version>
</dependency>
<repository>
    <id>sonatype-snapshots</id>
    <name>Sonatype Snapshot Repository</name>
    <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
    <releases>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
    </releases>
    <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
    </snapshots>
</repository>

Building From Source

Pull latest from repo git pull origin 3.0 and use Maven install (or package) to build mvn clean install.

Testing

Hazelcast has 3 testing profiles (default profile doesn't run any tests):

• Type mvn test -P parallel-test to run tests those can be run in-parallel without using network.
• Type mvn test -P serial-test to run tests those cannot be run in-parallel.
• Type mvn test -P all-tests to run all test serially using network.

Mail Group

Please join the mail group if you are interested in using or developing Hazelcast.

http://groups.google.com/group/hazelcast

License

Hazelcast is available under the Apache 2 License.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2008-2013, Hazelcast, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Visit www.hazelcast.com for more info.