Apama Apr 2021 update

Posted: April 19, 2021

The latest version of Apama has arrived, incorporating 10.7.0 and 10.7.1, with several developer-focused improvements.

Version 10.7.0 PySys

The PySys testing framework includes a number of improvements making automated testing of EPL easier and more powerful. PySys has been updated to version 1.6.1 and you can refer to the PySys change log for full details.

The new PySys highlights include:

New BaseTest.assertThatGrep() method for extract and assert use cases New plug-in API to write simpler Apama specific code such as correlator = self.apama.startCorrelator('testCorrelator',… Read More

Upcoming Apama 10.11 release information – Java® 11

Posted: April 16, 2021

What is changing?

Existing 10.x versions of Apama come with a Java® 8 JDK, but the upcoming October 2021 release of Apama 10.11 will come with a Java 11 JDK. This means all Java code executed by correlator and IAF processes will be executed with Java 11.

Some of the most notable changes in the new Java version are:

Removal of some APIs including JAXB (see JEP 320) The default garbage collector has changed from Parallel GC to G1GC

Some key points about G1GC from Oracle® are as follows:

The Garbage-First (G1) garbage collector is targeted for multiprocessor machines with a large amount of memory.… Read More

Community round-up – Functional EPL

Posted: February 3, 2021

While Software AG is busy adding features to Apama, the community is busy creating and publishing things as well. We maintain an index of the various community-created projects here. We hope that these community libraries and plug-ins can be useful for others and share them for people to use. Improvements and contributions are also very welcome.

This is part three of this series of community round-up blogs. You can find the previous blog post here, which looked at some EPL plug-ins.… Read More

Community round-up – Localization, authentication and home automation plug-ins

Posted: January 15, 2021

While Software AG is busy adding features to Apama, the community is busy creating and publishing things as well. We maintain an index of the various community-created projects here. We hope that these community libraries and plug-ins can be useful for others and share them for people to use. Improvements and contributions are also very welcome.

This is part two of this series of community round-up blogs. You can find the first blog post here, which looked at some EPL libraries.… Read More

Community round-up – container types and complex number libraries

Posted: January 4, 2021

While Software AG is busy adding features to Apama, the community is busy creating and publishing things as well. We maintain an index of the various community-created projects on GitHub. We hope that these community libraries and plug-ins can be useful for others and share them for people to use. Improvements and contributions are also very welcome.

In this blog post we’re going to look at a couple of the recent contributions to go up on the index, what they do and what future directions or contributions they would accept.… Read More