Writing a Hazelcast / CastMapR MapReduce Task in Java

Hazelcast is a distributed In-Memory-Datagrid written in Java. In addition to the internal features like EntryProcessors and queries you can write MapReduce tasks using the CastMapR projects which adds MapReduce capabilities on top of Hazelcast 3.x. To make it comparable to other MapReduce frameworks we will try to reimplement

java-forum.org - Riding a dead horse - Or how fast you can kill a community

Today I want to coder a bit of a different topic so please read the following text and I appreciate ideas and opinions. Not yet 60 hours ago a bad time for the german Java community started. A new owner took over the java-forum.org - the best reputated and

CastMapR - The Hazelcast 3 MapReduce Framework

A few days ago while porting our current system to Hazelcast 3 Snapshots I finally decided to start a MapReduce implementation for Hazelcast which I was missing for a long time. Whereas there always was a way to query IMaps in a distributed manner using Predicates I missed a solution

Property Accessors - 2

Here's a short update: At the moment there's not much to tell but I'd found at lot of interest in properties support in Java and I'm glad to see people like the general idea. The first discussion started mostly about how the syntax should look like and why defining a

Property Accessors - a short introduction

As I stated yesterday I started the discussion about adding Property Accessors to Java. Today I want to show some more about my thoughts. There are at least three questions? * What are Property Accessors? * Why Java needs them? * What could they look like? What are Property Accessors? So starting with