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.

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 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.

This screencast explores the various features available in 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.