OpenSpaces Developer Challenge - Final Entries are In

Last week we have received 14 fascinating final submissions to our developer contest, and the review process is starting TODAY! Check those entries out...

Project Name & Homepage	Description	Captain	Maturity
Convergence Related blog post	Convergence is a project aimed at integrating Computational Grids with In-Memory Data Grids (IMDG)	Kirill Uvaev	Beta
DomainProxy	An extension enabling rich domain models with domain relationships to be transparently used with OpenSpaces.	Jason Carreira	Alpha
Examples of Dynamic Scripting with Groovy	Several examples of dynamic scripting with groovy to demonstrate various techniques of using groovy within the Gigaspaces XAP.	Ed Crandell	Alpha
External Data Source by Amazon SimpleDB	Amazon SimpleDB as an external data source for Open Source persistency. An alternative for Hibernate backed data source.	Chen Wang	Pre-Alpha
Gigapult Related blog post	A JRuby-based domain-specific language designed to specify all aspects of grid configurations in an intuitive and readable way.	Kirill Ishanov	Beta
GigaSpaces BPEL Engine	An engine for executing BPEL (business process execution language) standard workflows.	Mihai Lucian	Alpha
GigaSpaces Cache Integrations	GigaSpaces cache integration with multiple open source frameworks.	Steve Tzou	Beta
GoDo - Goods Donation System	A distributed application that connects people who wish to donate with those interested to receive this donation.	Leonardo Goncalves	Alpha
Maven 2 OpenSpaces Tools	Maven plugin allowing GigaSpaces application developers to easily build, assemble, and deploy OpenSpaces application.	Jin Kim	RC1
OpenSpaces Binary Calculator Related blog post	An application using an experimental approach for capacity measurement.	Victor Samoylov	Alpha
PackRat Related blog post	A library that will help to increase the space capacity by packing the Entities.	Alexander Kuznetsov	Beta
SpaceMemcached	Memcached implementation based on grizzly (nio framework) and GigaSpaces (distributed Cache).	Steve Tzou	Beta
TGris	A Distributed Testing Grid that is developed on top of GigaSpaces XAP.	Igor Goldenberg	Beta
Web Hits Aggregator - Connector for PHP	A generic connector providing PHP support for GigaSpaces XAP capabilities including Take, TakeMultiple, Read, ReadMultiple, Write, Lease and Transaction.	Moshe Kaplan	Beta

Contestants are presenting their projects to the judges today and tomorrow, and I'm hoping that we'll be able to publish the results by April 18, 2008.

In addition, I'm working on some interviews with the developers, so stay tuned for those (I'll publish them in this blog).

Finally, I'd like to congratulate all those finalists; I wish you great success in your presentations and the entire review process.

Alit