Download the latest Hazelcast zip.

Unzip it and add the lib/hazelcast.jar to your class path.

Create a Java class and import Hazelcast libraries.

Following code will start the first node and create and use customers map and queue.

import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Queue;

public class GettingStarted {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Config cfg = new Config();
        HazelcastInstance instance = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance(cfg);
        Map<Integer, String> mapCustomers = instance.getMap("customers");
        mapCustomers.put(1, "Joe");
        mapCustomers.put(2, "Ali");
        mapCustomers.put(3, "Avi");

        System.out.println("Customer with key 1: "+ mapCustomers.get(1));
        System.out.println("Map Size:" + mapCustomers.size());

        Queue<String> queueCustomers = instance.getQueue("customers");
        queueCustomers.offer("Tom");
        queueCustomers.offer("Mary");
        queueCustomers.offer("Jane");
        System.out.println("First customer: " + queueCustomers.poll());
        System.out.println("Second customer: "+ queueCustomers.peek());
        System.out.println("Queue size: " + queueCustomers.size());
    }
}

Run this class second time to get the second node started.

Have you seen they formed a cluster? You should see something like this:

Members [2] {
	Member [127.0.0.1:5701]
	Member [127.0.0.1:5702] this
}
                            

Besides hazelcast.jar you should also add hazelcast-client.jar to your classpath.

Following code will start a Hazelcast Client, connect to our two node cluster and print the size of our customers map.

package com.hazelcast.test;

import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;

public class GettingStartedClient {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();
        clientConfig.addAddress("127.0.0.1:5701");
        HazelcastInstance client = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(clientConfig);
        IMap map = client.getMap("customers");
        System.out.println("Map Size:" + map.size());
    }
}

When you run it, you will see the client properly connects to the cluster and print the map size as 3.

You can browse documentation and resources for detailed features and examples.

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You can browse Hazelcast source code.