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On June 25th Oracle announced the availability of Coherence Community Edition - a free and open-source edition of Oracle Coherence - and Helidon 2.0, along with a microservices demo application based on both. The presentation and webinar recording from the launch event are now available for viewing. The Coherence team invites you to check out these materials, and communicate with us directly via Slack and Twitter.

Oracle Coherence has pioneered the In-Memory Data Grid space, powering high-scale mission-critical applications around the world in many industries.   Today, Oracle is pleased to announce that it is making the core of Oracle Coherence available as free and open source software in Coherence Community Edition. Coherence Community Edition is licensed under the Open Source Initiative’s Universal Permissive License, Version 1.0, and is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/oracle/coh...

If you're a Coherence user, this is something you will not want to miss.   As you know, Oracle Coherence pioneered the In-Memory Data Grid market, and is used today in mission-critical applications around the world and across industries.  Oracle Coherence can be used a shared data store for traditional Java SE, Java EE and Jakarta EE applications, for lightweight microservices, and for in-memory data processing on the data grid.  You may already know we've recently introduced...

OpenTracing is a set of APIs to enable instrumentation and/or tracing in a distributed environment.  Given the distributed nature of Coherence, OpenTracing is both a natural fit and a means to provide insight into the breakdown of a distributed request pipeline.  Beginning with 14.1.1.0 release, Oracle Coherence provides an integration with the OpenTracing API.   Prerequisites In order to use the Coherence integration with OpenTracing, the following dependencies (in maven...

Overview The Topics API adds publish/subscribe and message queue processing functionality to Oracle Coherence 14.1.1.  The topics and their content are managed in a distributed and fault tolerant manner within the Oracle Coherence data grid. The underlying architecture enables scalable, parallel, high throughput consumption of Topic content.  Each topic can be independently configured, enabling selecting appropriate Quality of Service (QoS) of in-memory, journaled or persistent...

Oracle Coherence Product Development is very pleased to announce the release of Oracle Coherence version 14.1.1. Part of Oracle's Enterprise Cloud Native Java portfolio, which also includes Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1, Coherence 14.1.1 brings significant new features to market, representing many man-years of engineering effort. This release of Oracle Coherence is fully compatible with popular container and orchestration ecosystems certified with Coherence since 2016, for...

Videos covering new Coherence 12.2.1.4 features, and the 2.0 release of Coherence Operator  for Kubernetes, have been uploaded to the Oracle Coherence channel on YouTube. In these videos you'll see members of the Coherence engineering team describe and demonstrate the cool new features of Coherence 12.2.1.4 and Coherence Operator 2.0. A listing of these videos is as follows: * Coherence 12.2.1.4 "Management Over REST" feature * Coherence 12.2.1.4 "View Caches" feature * Coherence...

Oracle Coherence Product Development is pleased to announce the release of Coherence Operator 2.0 into general availability. Coherence Operator is a Kubernetes Operator for Coherence clusters: a Coherence-specific controller extending the Kubernetes API to create, configure, and manage Coherence deployments. The 2.0 release of Coherence Operator introduces a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD) for Coherence clusters.  The CRD allows users to define the expected...

Oracle Coherence Product Development is excited to announce the availability of Coherence Cloud Edition on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace. With this offering, customers can provision dedicated infrastructure and running Coherence clusters on OCI in a matter of minutes, selecting from a menu of resources and providing configuration parameters through a wizard interface.  Afterward, customers securely shell into the provisioned machines and manage the Coherence...