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= Using Hot Rod Java clients

Hot Rod is a binary TCP client/server protocol that gives fast access to data in remote Infinispan caches.
The Hot Rod Java client provides automatic load balancing and failover along with intelligence capabilities that use consistent hash techniques to efficiently locate cache entries.

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