Chapter 14. The CarMart Quickstarts
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid includes a transactional and non-transactional CarMart quickstart. The CarMart quickstart is a simple web application that uses JBoss Data Grid instead of a relational database. Information about each car is stored in a cache. Caches are configured declaratively or programmatically depending on the usage mode.
Features
The CarMart quickstart offers the following features:
- List all cars
- Add new cars
- Remove cars
- View statistics for caches, such as hits, stores, and retrievals
Usage Modes
The CarMart quickstart can be used in the following JBoss Data Grid usage modes:
- Remote Client-Server Mode, where the application includes the Hot Rod client to communicate with a remote JBoss Data Grid server.
- Library Mode, where all libraries are bundled with the application in the form of
jarfiles.
Location
JBoss Data Grid's CarMart quickstart is available at the following location: jboss-datagrid-{VERSION}-quickstarts/
14.1. About the CarMart Transactional Quickstart
The transactional version of the CarMart quickstart is a simple web application that uses Red Hat JBoss Data Grid instead of a relational database. Information about each car is stored in a cache. Caches are configured declaratively or programmatically (depending on the usage mode) and run in the same Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as the web application.
Features
The Transactional CarMart Quickstart offers the following features:
- List all cars
- Add new cars
- Add new cars with rollback
- Remove cars
- View statistics for caches, such as hits, stores, and retrievals
Usage Modes
The Transactional CarMart Quickstart can only be used in JBoss Data Grid's Library mode. A standalone transaction manager from JBoss Transactions is used when the Transactional CarMart Quickstart is run in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2.x.
Location
JBoss Data Grid's Transactional CarMart Quickstart can be found at the following location: jboss-datagrid-{VERSION}-quickstarts/carmart-tx
