Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and VMware environments. There are three main parts to Cloud Tools:
* EC2Deploy - the core framework. This framework manages virtual instances (e.g. EC2), configures MySQL, Tomcat, Terracotta and Apache and deploys the application. See this blog entry for an overview.
* Maven and Grails plugins that use EC2Deploy to deploy an application
* Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are configured to run Tomcat and work with EC2Deploy. See list of installed software.
Stitches is a Grails 1.1 plugin that implements a content repository with many value added features.
* Define content and attributes
* Store and version content
* Search and filter by keyword, folder, tag.
* Geocode your content and perform "nearby longitude/latitude searches"
* Synchronize your content to amazon s3.
* Automatic Image scaling upon request.
* Text is automatically extracted for keyword search from different document formats (e.g. PDF, Word, Excel, etc)