Infinispan Training Course

Module 1. Introducing the Infinispan data grid

• Infinispan and JSR 107 – Java Temporary Caching API
• Getting started with Infinispan
• Installing Infinispan
• Looking inside the box
• Using Maven
• Creating your first project
• Setting up the environment

Module 2: Infinispan architecture 

• Anatomy of an Infinispan clustered cache 
• The embedded (P2P) mode 
• The client/server mode 
• The cache container
• Default cache
• Naming your caches 

Module 3: Understanding Infinispan Topologies

• Clustering modes 
• The local mode 
• The invalidation mode 
• The replicated mode 
• Understanding synchronous and asynchronous replication 
• The distribution mode 
• Server Hinting 
• L1 caching 

Module 4. Configuring an Infinispan cache 

• Declarative configuration on Infinispan
• Understanding the JGroups element
• Configuring the threads subsystem
• Configuring the cache-container element
• Programmatic configuration 
• Infinispan APIs 
• Learning the cache API
• Understanding cache evictions
• Configuring cache expiration
• Eviction v/s Expiration

Module 5. Persisting data in Infinispan

• Configuring a cache loader
• Filesystem-based cache loaders
• JDBC-based cache loaders
• JPA cache store
• Selecting a JDBC cache loader
• Using passivation in your application

Module 6. The role of Marshalling

• Support for Non-Serializable Objects
• Advanced configuration
• Plugging Infinispan with User defined Externalizers

Module 7. Querying and indexes

• The infinispan-query module
• Configuration
• Cache modes and managing indexes
• Sharing the index
• Clustering the index in Infinispan
• Rebuilding the index
• Obtaining query statistics
• Infinispan's Query DSL
• Filtering operators
• Boolean conditions
• Nested conditions
• Projections
• Sorting
• Pagination
• Grouping and Aggregation

Module 8. Using HotRod Client

• Introduction
• Installation and configuration
• Using the API

Module 9. Use of Streams API

• Common stream operations
• Local/Invalidation
• Distribution/Replication
• Rehash aware
• Serialization
• Parallel Computation
• Task Timeout
• Injection
• Distributed Stream Execution
• Key based rehash aware operators
• Intermediate operation exceptions

Module 10: Understanding Transactions and Concurrency 

• Transaction fundamentals 
• Java Transaction API 
• Transactional modes 
• Non-transactional data access 
• Transactional models 
• Optimistic transaction 
• Pessimistic transaction 
• Choosing the better transaction model 
• Batch mode 
• Transaction recovery 
• Integrating with Transaction Manager 
• Locking and concurrency control 
• Multiversion concurrency control 
• Configuring isolation levels in Infinispan 
• Implicit and explicit locking 
• Lock timeouts 
• Deadlock detection 
• Data versioning 

Module 11. Introducing Hibernate OGM 

• Hibernate OGM features 
• Hibernate OGM architecture 
• Understanding how the mappings work 
• Installing and using Hibernate OGM 
• Creating a Hibernate OGM project using Maven 
• Configuring the persistence unit 
• Configuring Infinispan caches for Hibernate OGM 
• Creating the domain model 

Module 12. Understanding Cross site replication

• Sample deployment
• Data replication
• Taking a site offline
• State transfer between sites

Module 13. Looking to version 9

• The news with version 9
• Understanding the major changes
• Upgrading path from 8.x to 9