Just a reminder that I will be speaking at the November meeting of the Orange Country Java Users Group (OCJUG) this Thursday (the 10th).

This presentation will be a variation of the presentation I did at JavaOne at the start of October on Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk tool for creating PaaS environments for Java web applications.

Please refer to the OCJUG website (www.ocjug.org) for exact timing and location.

This is the full presentation I gave at JavaOne 2011 in San Francisco on October 6th, including screencast versions of all demonstrations.

Abstract

The cloud has promised a lot to Java Web developers but has delivered on only some of the hype. Many issues still exist that have the ability to kill many a project. Elastic Beanstalk, a Web service announced by Amazon in early 2011, takes the cloud to the next level for Java Web applications. It aims to eliminate the remaining issues the cloud presents. No hardware purchases? Check! Low setup costs? Check! No software installation? Check! Automatic resource scaling? Check! Resource monitoring? Check! This presentation takes a deep dive into Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk service, including what problems it can help solve and opportunities it provides to deliver better Java Web applications.

Cloud is a disruptive force and has the potential for broad long-term impact in most industries. While the market remains in its early stages in 2011 and 2012, it will see the full range of large enterprise providers fully engaged in delivering a range of offerings to build cloud environments and deliver cloud services. Oracle, IBM and SAP all have major initiatives to deliver a broader range of cloud services over the next two years. As Microsoft continues to expand its cloud offering, and these traditional enterprise players expand offerings, users will see competition heat up and enterprise-level cloud services increase.

via Biztech2.com India – Top 10 Strategic Technologies For 2012 – News on Enterprise Solutions.

Enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs.

That was the advice delivered by analyst Daryl Plummer during Gartner’s IT Symposium Tuesday. Plummer says that there are many potential benefits to deploying cloud services, including agility, reduced cost, reduced complexity, increased focus, increased innovation and being able to leverage the knowledge and skills of people outside the company.

via Gartner: Private clouds are a last resort.

This screencast shows how the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk plugin for Eclipse allows developers to directly deploy their Java Web Applications from within Eclipse to their Elastic Beanstalk account. The plugin allows developers to create brand new applications and configure the Elastic Beanstalk resources as part of the process.

This screencast shows how the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk plugin for Eclipse allows developers to write Java Web Applications and test them on local instances of Apache Tomcat, just as they would when writing any traditional Java Web Application.

This screencast shows how to install the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk plugin into your Eclipse environment and how to create your first Elastic Beanstalk application.

This screencast details the steps necessary to upload and launch your own Java Web Application on Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk service.

This screencast explores all the options available for managing Java execution environments using the web management console for the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk service. It was part of my JavaOne 2011 presentation Dead-Simple Deployment: Headache-Free Java Web Applications in the Cloud.

I presented this at JavaOne 2011 on October 6th. It discusses some of the problems related to environment provisioning that enterprise Java developers face and how the new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) product from Amazon Web Services called Elastic Beanstalk can solve some of those problems.