Terracotta, Inc., a provider of solutions for enterprise Java scalability, has announced the general availability of Terracotta 2.3, the latest release of the company’s open source Java clustering solution. Terracotta 2.3 offers new features that accelerate its integration with popular lightweight frameworks such as Struts, iBATIS and RIFE, and reduce deployment costs of application clustering – bringing highly available, scalable Java applications to a broader market of users.

With Terracotta 2.3, developers can further extend the power of lightweight clustering through several key enhancements. Terracotta’s new Configuration Modules feature allows the development and use of modular pre-packaged configurations for popular frameworks that can be easily plugged in at deployment time. Initial Configuration Modules include:

• Lucene, the high-performance, full-featured text Java search engine
• RIFE, a full-stack Web application framework
• Struts 1, a flexible control layer based on standard technologies like Java servlets, JavaBeans, ResourceBundles and XML
• Cglib, a high-performance code generation library
• iBATIS, an object-relational mapping framework

In addition, developers can easily contribute new modules to precisely target specific Terracotta capabilities required for their applications. The new structure and capabilities accelerate the expansion of the developer community and its contributions to the Terracotta project. Other open source communities are currently integrating with Terracotta using this capability, and the company anticipates announcing support for more open source frameworks soon.