Atomikos Named "Cool Ven­dor" by Lead­ing An­a­lyst Firm

Ven­dors se­lect­ed for the “Cool Ven­dor” re­port are in­no­v­a­tive, im­pact­ful and in­trigu­ing

Meche­len, Bel­gium, May 12, 2011– Atomikos, a lead­ing provider of trans­ac­tion man­age­ment so­lu­tions for high vol­ume trans­ac­tion en­vi­ron­ments, to­day an­nounced it has been in­clud­ed in the list of "Cool Ven­dors" in the Cool Ven­dors in Ap­pli­ca­tion and In­te­gra­tion Plat­forms, 2011 re­port by Gart­ner, Inc.

“We are great­ly hon­ored to be in­clud­ed in the Cool Ven­dor re­port by Gart­ner. We be­lieve it is fur­ther val­i­da­tion that our “JEE with­out the ap­pli­ca­tion serv­er” mes­sage is res­onat­ing and gain­ing trac­tion. As mar­ket adop­tion of light­weight Java con­tain­ers in­creas­es, in­ter­est in so­lu­tions such as Atomikos Ex­tremeTrans­ac­tions ris­es in par­al­lel. We are see­ing in­creas­ing mar­ket in­ter­est in our tech­nol­o­gy and in our app serv­er free ap­proach – par­tic­u­lar­ly with­in trans­ac­tion-cen­tric in­dus­tries such as fi­nan­cial ser­vices, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and trans­porta­tion sec­tors,” says Guy Par­don, CTO, Atomikos.

About Atomikos Ex­tremeTrans­ac­tions

For CTO’s ar­chi­tects and de­vel­op­ers in Ex­treme Trans­ac­tion Pro­cess­ing (XTP) or Ser­vice Ori­ent­ed Ar­chi­tec­ture (SOA) en­vi­ron­ments where data qual­i­ty and per­for­mance is mis­sion crit­i­cal, Atomikos Ex­tremeTrans­ac­tions is a trans­ac­tion man­age­ment sys­tem that au­to­mates and man­ages both sim­ple and high­ly dis­trib­uted trans­ac­tion process­es, pre­vent­ing cost­ly data cor­rup­tion in the event of a sys­tem fail­ure or crash. The prod­uct’s patent pend­ing Try-Can­cel/Con­firm (TCC ) ap­proach is op­ti­mized for two-phase com­pen­sa­tion-based trans­ac­tions sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duc­ing work­flow com­plex­i­ty in SOA en­vi­ron­ments. There is no need for the mod­el­ing of er­ror paths, mak­ing the so­lu­tion ide­al for Ser­vice Ori­ent­ed Ar­chi­tec­tures with com­pos­ite ap­pli­ca­tions and com­pli­cat­ed trans­ac­tion trees.

Atomikos Ex­tremeTrans­ac­tions can be pur­chased on­line through the Atomikos web­site. More in­for­ma­tion can be found at Atomikos Ex­tremeTrans­ac­tions

About Atomikos Atomikos is a mar­ket leader in trans­ac­tion man­age­ment for XTP, SOA and open source en­vi­ron­ments. Atomikos’ soft­ware safe­guards your crit­i­cal trans­ac­tions and pre­vents cost­ly data loss in the event of a sys­tem fail­ure or crash by au­tomat­ing the can­cel­la­tion of failed busi­ness trans­ac­tions. For more in­for­ma­tion vis­it our web­site at www.atom­ikos.com or con­tact us at sales@atom­ikos.com

Cool Ven­dor Dis­claimer About Gart­ner's Cool Ven­dors Selec­tion Pro­cess Gart­ner's list­ing does not con­sti­tute an ex­haus­tive list of ven­dors in any giv­en tech­nol­o­gy area, but rather is de­signed to high­light in­ter­est­ing, new and in­no­v­a­tive ven­dors, prod­ucts and ser­vices. Gart­ner dis­claims all war­ranties, ex­pressed or im­plied, with re­spect to this re­search, in­clud­ing any war­ranties of mer­chantabil­i­ty or fit­ness of a par­tic­u­lar pur­pose.

Gart­ner de­fines a cool ven­dor as a com­pa­ny that of­fers tech­nolo­gies or so­lu­tions that are: In­no­v­a­tive, en­able users to do things they couldn't do be­fore; Im­pact­ful, have, or will have, busi­ness im­pact (not just tech­nol­o­gy for the sake of tech­nol­o­gy); In­trigu­ing, have caught Gart­ner's in­ter­est or cu­rios­i­ty in ap­prox­i­mate­ly the past six months

Check out this in­ter­est­ing pre­sen­ta­tion on In­foQ by Ce­sare Pau­tas­so.

We at Atomikos are work­ing with Ce­sare to re­search REST and Trans­ac­tions and how to in­te­grate this with BPM for REST as well; check out this slideshare pre­sen­ta­tion (also by Ce­sare).

Good news: we've fi­nal­ly re­leased our 3.7.0 re­lease, with im­proved per­for­mance as the main fo­cus. Although pre­vi­ous mile­stone builds have been re­leased on re­peat­ed oc­ca­sions, this is now the of­fi­cial 3.7.0 re­lease for both Trans­ac­tion­sEssen­tials (open source, not sup­port­ed) as well as Ex­tremeTrans­ac­tions (not open source, sub­scrip­tion-based avail­abil­i­ty, with sup­port).

To down­load, pro­ceed to our home­page.

As per our new poli­cies, the open source Trans­ac­tion­sEssen­tials prod­uct is now also avail­able via maven cen­tral - in­clud­ing clean poms, sources that match the bi­na­ries and all oth­er things that maven users de­serve...

Over the next months we will be work­ing with 2ndQuad­rant to im­prove the Post­gresql XA func­tion­al­i­ty and stream­line com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with Atomikos prod­ucts. Dur­ing this time, we will grad­u­al­ly elab­o­rate an XA com­pat­i­bil­i­ty test kit that will serve both as a test tool and a learn­ing suite for XA fea­tures in data­bas­es in gen­er­al.

In­ter­est­ed? Please con­tact us if you would like to get more de­tails, or if you want to con­tribute...

It has hap­pened a cou­ple of times that peo­ple have asked me how to start­up only the re­cov­ery part of their ap­pli­ca­tions. While there is no built-in sup­port in Atomikos (for now), here is a way to do it with Spring:

• Con­cen­trate your DataSource, Con­nec­tionFac­to­ry and Trans­ac­tionMan­ag­er bean de­f­i­n­i­tions in one con­fig file, say in­fra­struc­ture-con­fig.xml (the term will sound fa­mil­iar to those who prac­tice Do­main-Driv­en De­sign (DDD)
• Use this con­fig file in your ap­pli­ca­tion; this is your full run­time
• Create a sep­a­rate Main that ini­tial­izes Spring with noth­ing else but this con­fig; this will be your re­cov­ery-only ru­time

Voila! En­joy...