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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:20:57 -0500
From: David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net>
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On 12/08/2010 03:40 PM, Anthony Urso wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the initial release of KeptCollections, a
> library of drop-in replacements for standard Java Collections that use
> Apache ZooKeeper as a backing store.
>
> KeptCollections are designed to make it easy for anyone to write
> distributed applications without having to learn the intricacies of
> ZooKeeper, or distributed programming in general.
>
> The collections use the well-known JDK APIs, yet any changes made to
> any of these collections by one node are seen by all other nodes
> within milliseconds, allowing for easy communication between processes in a
> computing cluster.

Sounds very similar in functionality to Terracotta.  (Though quite 
different in implementation.)

Anyway, great work!

DR