TomEETribe, With the spread of Platforms As A Service such as Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Bluemix and Containers++ it becomes critical that TomEE provides first class support to the deployment of apps in the cloud. In many ways you already provide this with the ability to package fat jars and TomEE Shades <http://www.tomitribe.com/blog/2015/03/50-shades-of-tomee/> and an official container <https://github.com/tomitribe/docker-tomee> that dockerized apps can build on.
*I take the liberty here to suggest a feature that will accelerate the adoption of TomEE in the cloud*- *A buildpack for TomEE* *WHAT ?* This is a continuation of the conversation started here <https://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/java-ibm-bluemix-cloudfoundry-setup-how-to-get-tomee-on-bluemix-javaee/>. This TomEE buildpack will allow Enterprise Java and JavaEE developers to push apps to Heroku <https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks>, Cloud Foundry AND all its derivatives like Bluemix, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, HP Helion etc. The TomEE buildpack just like the JBOSS buildpack <https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/jboss-buildpack> will be a managed fork of the java buildpack <https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack>. *WHY ?* Providing a buildpack allows developers to ONLY focus on the war files and NOT bundle the server within the app. It also provides a way for the operators to upgrade and manage the versions of Java and JavaEE as well as other libraries independent of the app. It maintains a clean separation between app code and the app server in the cloud. For a quick introduction to the CF and the buildpack staging process see http://www.cloudcredo.com/a-droplet-of-value/. Buildpacks provide a way to package code and prepare an immutable code artifact aka a droplet. *HOW ?* We would follow the process created by the Cloud Foundry Open Source foundation <https://www.cloudfoundry.org/foundation/at-a-glance/> to contribute the buildpack to the community <https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/cf-docs-contrib/wiki/Buildpacks> and ultimately https://github.com/cloudfoundry. Thanks, Rohit Kelapure, Pivotal CF [email protected] cell: 9197242524 http://cloud.rohitkelapure.com/2015/07/migrating-websphere-application-server.html http://cloud.rohitkelapure.com/2015/07/migrating-websphere-weblogic-apps-to-cf.html
