GigaSpaces Launches OpenSpaces Community Site
GigaSpaces, an infrastructure software solutions provider is launching an open source community site that called OpenSpaces today. This community site was founded with the ideas of open source that any developer can contribute to the OpenSpaces Framework, an open source framework built by Spring that run on top of the eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), a middleware platform developed by GigaSpaces. eXtreme Application Platform was aimed to solve the scalability of hardware problems and OpenSpaces Framework is on the other hand, a programming model providing Application Programming Interface (API) that allows developers to write high-performance applications in Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs), .Net, and C++ objects.
GigaSpaces intended to promote OpenSpaces as the dream land of developers by enable them to scale out of their applications in a simple way, and without any doubt, developers will develop the useful extensions, plugins, and etc. to this community. The value proposition of OpenSpaces lies in its:
- Smooth scaling up
- Startup Program in which startups that are under $5 million revenue will entitled to this program with commercial XAP and free of charge
- Ease of programming, OpenSpaces is based on Spring, a Java/JEE application framework for shortening project lifecycle
- Developer Contest: a contest with $25,000 in total prizes and a $10,000 grand prize for developers that develop the most innovative applications with OpenSpaces Framework
Meanwhile, there are more than a dozen projects available on this OpenSpaces Framework.
