Thinkingcap Press Release

Thinkingcap launches its service cluster architecture

2 August 2004

Effective 2 August 2004, Thinkingcap has launched its service cluster architecture for client enterprise applications. This allows many Thinkingcap application servers on different machines to work together to share workload.

Dr Dave Romano-Critchley, CTO of Thinkingcap said "The service cluster architecture is both scalable and simple. These characteristics make the service cluster architecture a better choice than the more complex message oriented architectures for workload distribution and management across a network of machines."

The service cluster architecture is based on Thinkingcap's model oriented approach to enterprise application development. The central principle is that the 'work request' and 'work in progress' queues are modelled as ordinary Thinkingcap concepts. The service cluster architecture enables access to concepts to be globally synchronized using ordinary RDBMS locking.

The service cluster architecture is an integral part of the standard Thinkingcap application server. It underscores Thinkingcap's commitment to delivering enterprise-scalable solutions to support change and inniovation.