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New features enhance porting experience to NonStop

sundar_krishnan| October 31, 2011
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In my last post, I talked about the 4 key enablers to porting to NonStop. I concluded  the post by saying that enabling new application ports to the platform is a key aspect  of NonStop strategy.

 

ISVs review the software stack that is available on a platform, very critically. Support  of features that are available on their native platform / software stack (the platform / software stack, the application was originally developed on) is a critical success factor in porting  projects.  Database and Middleware are the two most important components of a software  stack as far as the application developer is concerned.


Keeping these in mind, NonStop Enterprise Division (NED) has focused on adding features  to their middleware and database products, that enhance the porting experience while making the applications perform better and easier to manage on NonStop.

 

  • NSJSP 7.0 (expected to be released by end of Calendar year (CY) 2011) will support the latest servlet 3.0, JSP2.2 and EL (Expression Language) 2.2. It also facilitates 'single pane of glass' management for administering and monitoring applications.
  • JToolkit has a new API that allows Java programs to communicate with a specific  server process. A Java developer can use this API just as she does in other platforms - NonStop specific programming knowledge is not required.
  • NSJ6.0 (compliant with Oracle JDK6.0) has a number of performance improvements which I am sure will be welcomed by the Java Developer community.
  • SQL/MX 3.0 has increased row limits (32k) and key limits (2k) -  ISVs do not have to split large rows to fit into 4k size of SQL/MX rows, any more. This release also supports 128 digits extended numeric precision

    In the coming months, you will see many more features being added to NonStop database and middleware, which will make application ports easier and faster. CY2012 will also see the set of open source software supported on NonStop, being enhanced to include some of the popular java open source software.

More on those later…

Labels: HP NonStop| ISV| Java| MX| Porting
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Shridhar V(anon) | ‎11-02-2011 03:45 PM
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Sundaresh,

 

Great to see all this good stuff, thanks !

 

Given the release of IPUs within CPUs, when can we see native threads for Java ?

 

sV

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sundar_krishnan | ‎11-16-2011 08:50 AM
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@Shridhar, currently, there are no plans to support kernel level threading in NonStop. If I may interpret your question as ‘what are the plans for further improving Java performance on NonStop now that we have multi-core CPUs', we do plan to enable parallel/concurrent garbage collection (GC) feature, utilizing the additional IPUs, in our next Java release (NSJ 7.0).  As per our analysis, the ‘consumer’ who would benefit the most from kernel level threading is GC (allowing it to execute in parallel/concurrent with JVM’s execution of user code) and our plan is to achieve this via alternate means, using posix threads and utilizing the power of multi-core CPUs. The outlook for general availability of NSJ 7.0 is latter half of CY2012.

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