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MINA is a simple yet full-featured network application framework which provides: * Unified API for various transport types: o TCP/IP & UDP/IP via Java NIO o Serial communication (RS232) via RXTX o In-VM pipe communication o You can implement your own! * Filter interface as an extension point; similar to Servlet filters * Low-level and high-level API: o Low-level: uses ByteBuffers o High-level: uses user-defined message objects and codecs * Highly customizable thread model: o Single thread o One thread pool o More than one thread pools (i.e. SEDA) * Out-of-the-box SSL · TLS · StartTLS support using Java 5 SSLEngine * Overload shielding & traffic throttling * Unit testability using mock objects * JMX managability * Stream-based I/O support via StreamIoHandler * Integration with well known containers such as PicoContainer and Spring * Smooth migration from Netty, an ancestor of Apache MINA.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) The VMforce collaboration is VMware’s first public implementation of Platform-as-a-Service (abbreviated as “PaaS”). PaaS offerings aim to make developers incredibly efficient by hiding many of the complexities that they face in typical enterprise IT environments such as: * Waiting for the provisioning of physical machines and their software * Changing your code to work with the specific middleware components your company uses * Handling code modifications that may be required as the middleware versions change * Dealing with new environments as your code moves from development to staging to production * Frustrating interactions with the separate operations team when things aren’t working well PaaS offerings typically offer add-on services available for developers to incorporate into their applications. These include capabilities such as location-based services, identity management, tweeting, chatter, search, and many forms of data storage. The developer efficiency and application richness to be gained through PaaS offerings is clear and we see it as one of the major trends in cloud computing. Today’s PaaS offerings are not without challenges though, and we believe VMware is in a unique position to attack these challenges and help bring PaaS to the mainstream.

Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and VMware environments. There are three main parts to Cloud Tools: * EC2Deploy - the core framework. This framework manages virtual instances (e.g. EC2), configures MySQL, Tomcat, Terracotta and Apache and deploys the application. See this blog entry for an overview. * Maven and Grails plugins that use EC2Deploy to deploy an application * Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are configured to run Tomcat and work with EC2Deploy. See list of installed software.

Sausalito is a product that enables you to develop, test, deploy, and host scalable web applications in the cloud. On this page, you find some reading material in case you're interested in * technical details about Sausalito, * user experience reports, or * presentations and demos that we gave.

Katta is a scalable, failure tolerant, distributed, data storage for real time access. Katta serves large, replicated, indices as shards to serve high loads and very large data sets. These indices can be of different type. Currently implementations are available for Lucene and Hadoop mapfiles. * Makes serving large or high load indices easy * Serves very large Lucene or Hadoop Mapfile indices as index shards on many servers * Replicate shards on different servers for performance and fault-tolerance * Supports pluggable network topologies * Master fail-over * Fast, lightweight, easy to integrate * Plays well with Hadoop clusters * Apache Version 2 License

Free, easy to setup wikis, blogs, forums and many other web applications that you can run locally or in the cloud. BitNami makes deploying server software a simple and enjoyable process.

The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing, including: * Hadoop Core, our flagship sub-project, provides a distributed filesystem (HDFS) and support for the MapReduce distributed computing framework. * HBase builds on Hadoop Core to provide a scalable, distributed database. * Pig is a high-level data-flow language and execution framework for parallel computation. It is built on top of Hadoop Core. * ZooKeeper is a highly available and reliable coordination system. Distributed applications use ZooKeeper to store and mediate updates for critical shared state. * Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on Hadoop Core that provides data summarization, adhoc querying and analysis of datasets.