ok, this is a long and puzzling sentence, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector
*HektÅr*, is a Trojan </wiki/Troy> prince and the greatest fighter of Troy in the Trojan War </wiki/Trojan_War>. As the son of Priam </wiki/Priam> and Hecuba </wiki/Hecuba>, a descendant of Dardanus </wiki/Dardanus>, who lived under Mount Ida </wiki/Mount_Ida>, and of Tros </wiki/Tros>, the founder of Troy,[2] <#cite_note-1> he is a prince of the royal house. So I guess he was merely a descendant... On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:10 PM, gabriele renzi <rff....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Ran Tavory <ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hector is a java client for cassandra, > > see http://github.com/rantav/hector , > http://prettyprint.me/2010/02/23/hector-a-java-cassandra-client/ , > http://prettyprint.me/2010/03/03/load-balancing-and-improved-failover-in-hector/ > > Hey Ran, > > > Over the past few weeks several contributors and myself added features > and > > since I get asked about it a few times a day I thought I might post a > public > > update. > > thanks for hector, > we switched to it one or two weeks ago and as of now we're happy, > though I'd have preferred resources to be Closeable instead of having > release_xxx methods. > Hopefully we'll put a couple patches on github soon. > > > PS > I wrote it in a comment to your original blog post that I guess went > into the spam filter: I am quite sure hector did not build troy :) > > > > > Versions: > > With the help of few folks (thanks Arin and other folks) hector now > supports > > cassandra 0.5.0, 0.5.1 and 0.6.0-beta. > > See http://wiki.github.com/rantav/hector/versions > > JMX improvements: > > I added a number of jmx counters such as: read/sec or writes/sec, max > read > > time in the last 10 seconds, mean write time in the last 10 seconds, > stddev > > and others. More here http://wiki.github.com/rantav/hector/jmx > > Small bugs fixed. Nothing really serious so far, but a few small > glitches, > > see http://github.com/rantav/hector/issues/closed > > C# clone: > > Kris and Matt have created a C# clone at > > http://github.com/mattvv/hectorsharp. Thanks a lot guys! I'm told this > is > > almost ready. > > Spring and JNDI: > > This is actually in the works (thanks Nathan and Peter, and sorry for > slow > > response...) but we'll soon have better support for Spring and JNDI > > > > Wiki updates: > > I've added a few sections to the wiki > http://wiki.github.com/rantav/hector/ > > My rule of thumb is if I get asked something more than once it deserves a > > page. However, I have a backlog... so not all pages are done and I'd > > appreciate help - if you have questions or you're willing to contribute > to > > the wiki feel free to step in. > > Contributions are welcome. github is developer friendly, just fork me. If > > you plan a longer term involvement I'll be happy to get more committers > in. > > > > -- > blog en: http://www.riffraff.info > blog it: http://riffraff.blogsome.com >