New Version of Appistry EAF Helps Enterprises Take Full Advantage of Converging Trends of Grid, SOA and Virtualization: Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, today announced Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric 3.5. The new version, formerly code-named “Anvil”, allows software architects and developers to quickly and easily take advantage of the transparent scalability and reliability that comes from deploying their applications and services in a highly distributed application fabric. Appistry EAF 3.5 significantly reduces the barriers to developing and deploying high-performance service-oriented applications in Java, .NET or C/C++ without the re-architecture and extensive code changes required by traditional grid-based approaches. “With this new version of Appistry EAF, it’s never been easier to take advantage of our application fabric’s ability to virtualize and quickly scale key applications,” said Kevin Haar, CEO of Appistry. “We continue to offer the simplest, cleanest and most flexible framework for creating grid-enabled applications capable of high-volume data processing. Organizations can get up and running in no time, and quickly begin to save time and money while dramatically reducing complexity. We’ve eliminated any excuses to wait.” Appistry EAF 3.5 Key Benefits and Features:

• Streamlined development and deployment – Application developers and architects can now unlock the full benefits of Appistry EAF without changing the code that powers their applications. By simply “annotating” their POJO (plain old Java object) or PONO (plain old .NET object) applications with source-level metadata, developers can readily exploit the scalability, reliability and parallelism provided by the application fabric environment.
• Enhanced capabilities for stateful applications – Appistry enhances its support for working with data cached in its Fabric Accessible Memory (FAM) — a reliable, in-memory data grid for application state information. With this new version, developers can effortlessly utilize rich, cross-platform map and array data types in FAM. In addition, user-defined complex types may be used as well; the fabric software automatically and transparently performs data serialization as needed.
• Improved performance – Appistry EAF 3.5 represents the culmination of significant investments in optimizing the software’s performance. These optimizations have culminated in throughput increases in excess of 10x for transactional applications and 4x for data-intensive applications. As a result, customers are able to maximize processing capability while getting the most out of computing infrastructure investments.
• Framework inherited agility and flexibility – Whether working with new applications, or refactoring applications never intended to run in a distributed manner, Appistry EAF 3.5 allows customers to scale applications across tens or even hundreds of computers and more quickly than ever before. Developers and architects can now get up and running with Appistry’s application fabric in no time.

“Traditional approaches to developing software applications at the scale required by our business is a growing challenge for our developers, not to mention the burden on our pocketbook of buying and operating expensive proprietary hardware,” said Ray Helmering, vice president of photogrammetric engineering at GeoEye. “By relying on the application fabric to provide scalability, reliability and manageability, we can leave our infrastructure concerns behind and focus on providing maximum value to our customers.” Availability Appistry EAF 3.5 is available immediately. ServerSide Java Symposium attendees may visit Appistry’s booth for a full demonstration of Appistry EAF 3.5. Additionally, Appistry’s co-founder and chief strategist Bob Lozano will be a part of the Symposium’s Industry Leaders Technology Panel on High Performance Architecture on March 22, 4:05-5pm.