PUBLIC MARKS from solrac with tags amazon & 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.

It's always best to write less code, right? And it makes a lot of sense to borrow someone else's hard work too. As you'll see in this article, the Amazon S3 service can expose the RESTful API and JetS3t makes working with S3 and the Java language a lot easier and ultimately a lot more efficient.

Explore cloud computing and the offerings from the major cloud platform vendors: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and SalesForce.com. Take a look at an example of a typical corporate application that uses a JMS queue, and examine what would be involved to hybridize part of this JMS infrastructure in the cloud.