Happy New Year! 2009 will be very busy for me… Yes, I feel it already. But that’s not subject of this post, back to the real topic.
While surfing the web and searching for informations about JBoss’ mod_cluster I have found a post at Bob McWhirter’s blog (check out his theses :)). I have figured out, that Bob has recently started a project called JBoss Cloud. Word cloud (same as green and social…) is very vogue last moths, so I’ve started digging this topic, especially therefore I’m a fan of JBoss.
What is it? In a few words it’s a set of scripts for creating JBoss AS appliances. You can run them, for example on Amazon’s EC2 or any other virtualized (or not) environment (eg. VMware). Many useful informations about JBoss Cloud (and JBoss Rails — another project from Bob) are enclosed in a great (no, that’s not irony) presentation. I highly recommend it!
JBoss Cloud is primarily designed to be a deployment tool / platform for JBoss Rails, but why not use it as a completely standalone project for clustered Java EE deployment? I’m not familiar with Rails (and Ruby too) — I would see JBoss Cloud as a big help for poeople that are deploying corporate apps written in JBoss Seam (my personal favourite).
I think, that a cool feature could be a user-friendly monitoring (management?) interface (web-app written in seam?). Maybe I could help with it? Will see.
Interested in JBoss Cloud? Want to learn more? Simply track Bob’s blog and join #jboss-cloud at freenode to ask him about this project! You can also grab the sources from GitHub and build yourself appliances or RPM’s. So, don’t be lazy — get involved! ;) I will keep my eyes on this project!
P.S. Primarly language of this blog is polish and most of posts will be still in polish. Just sometimes I will drop one or two notes in English to practice my poor language skills. So, be tolerant, please :)
I’m tolerant, but keep insisting on your writing in Polish as that’s what most readers like, me including.