PUBLIC MARKS from solrac with tags EC2 & java

In Part 1 of this introduction to SimpleDB, you will learn how to leverage Amazon's own API to model a CRUD-style racing app. In Part 2 Learn how to refactor the racing application from Part 1 to be compliant with the JPA specification. Then you'll port the app to SimpleJPA, which implements a subset of the Java Persistence API.

Provisioning an EC2 instance for hosting a Java Web application is a snap. In this Java development 2.0 column, you'll quickly build a Web application that leverages Groovy, Spring, and Hibernate (via the Grails framework) and deploy it on an EC2 instance.

This article give you a hands-on introduction to developing for and deploying on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Learn how EC2 differs from Google App Engine, and leverage an Eclipse plug-in and the concise Groovy language to get a simple Web application up and running quickly on EC2.