Appistry and Interface21 Partner to Simplify Development and Deployment of Large-Scale, Mission Critical Applications: Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, and Interface21, a provider of open source software for mission-critical enterprise applications, today announced a strategic partnership and previewed Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (Appistry EAF) for Spring. Appistry EAF for Spring offers a comprehensive yet easy-to-use solution for reliably scaling out Spring applications with no code changes. The new offering will provide Spring customers with the compute and data grid facilities required by large-scale, mission-critical applications, including those for high-volume data processing, “real-time” analytics, and enterprise high-performance computing (HPC). Downloaded more than 3 million times to date, Spring has become the dominant Java application framework, well-recognized for its productivity and ease-of-use; thousands of organizations have used Spring to build and deploy sophisticated, mission-critical applications with outstanding results. Appistry EAF for Spring allows these organizations to build on their success with the framework and take advantage of the enhanced scalability and reliability provided by Appistry’s application fabric software. “The productivity and flexibility of the Spring programming model has made it the default choice for enterprise Java. Appistry EAF for Spring will help organizations succeed with large-scale, mission-critical applications by allowing them to easily scale Spring applications in a highly reliable manner without the complexity of traditional deployment approaches,” said Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework and CEO of Interface21. The integrated offering will allow developers and architects of Spring applications to transparently take advantage of the unique capabilities provided by Appistry’s award-winning application fabric software: * scale-out virtualization, which makes a pool of compute resources appear as a single, virtualized resource * application-level fault-tolerance, which transparently ensures the reliability of in-flight work * automated management, which automates deployment and provisioning of applications across the grid or cluster “Appistry’s application fabric provides customers with a powerful yet lightweight approach for scaling applications across a virtualized pool of commodity servers,” said Kevin Haar, CEO of Appistry. "By combining the fabric’s scalability, reliability and performance with the simplicity of Spring we’re making it possible for Java developers and architects to develop and deploy mission-critical software quicker and easier than ever before… We’re giving them their cake and letting them eat it too!" Appistry EAF for Spring will be demonstrated at Appistry’s booth, #432, at the JavaOne Conference May 8-11, 2007, and will be generally available in summer 2007. Additional information is available on the Appistry EAF for Spring homepage at its Web site. Developers interested in participating in the Appistry EAF for Spring Limited Beta program may apply at the same site.