Run Java EE app on EC2

Question

Can anyone point me to the steps/resources that describe:

1. How to deploy a Java EE app on amazon-EC2
2. Maintain changes to the meta-data of the app serve

Answer 1

Boxfuse supports deploying Java EE applications using either Tomcat, TomEE Web Profile or TomEE Plus to AWS with a single command

boxfuse run mytomeeapp-1.0.war -env=prod

This will create an image, provision all necessary AWS infrastructure and launch the instances. It supports blue/green zero downtime updates with Elastic IPs and ELBs.

You can find a tutorial here: https://boxfuse.com/blog/javaee-aws.html

You don't have to worry about maintaining changes to the meta-data as all instances are immutable and contain all necessary app server info.

Disclaimer: I am the founder and CEO of Boxfuse