Here is some interesting information for the architecturally versed, covering concepts and tools that may be directly or indirectly relevant in the evolution of Krescendo’s services framework (messaging, auditing, reporting, file management).
Spring have just released a new Data library which exposes an API to utilise GemFire:
What is GemFire? – a data layer that uses a Enterprise Data Fabric, high speed data structure which can be in memory or on disk, which can be distributed accross multiple servers, before being funneled into a slower storage solution.
What is an Enterprise Data Fabric?
http://community.gemstone.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=6032133