On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Jason Pickering < [email protected]> wrote:
> More cool stuff with Amazon Web Services. In my last experiment with AWS, I > have utilized the "Elastic Beanstalk". A little bit strange to get your head > around but here it is.. > > http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/ > > So, basically, what you do is you upload a war file. AWS then deploys it to > a selected environment, creates auto scaling triggers, elastic load > balancers, and all of that stuff that most people (including me!!) have no > idea. The basic idea is that as the demand on the app grows, then you need > to scale it. But wit the "Elastic beanstalk" it does all of this for you. It > costs nothing more than all the normal services on Amazon and takes care of > the auto-scaling. > > I assume, it would be possible somehow to embed the connection properties > to a database somewhere inside the WAR file? You do not have direct access > to the environment, so there is no way to specify a database connection > through the hibernate.properties file, but it seems possible to do this > somehow. > > So, basically, all you have to do is to upload a war file, and boom..you > are in the cloud and have to do nothing basically in terms of configuration. > > > Check it out here > > http://dhis2.elasticbeanstalk.com/ > > This is a really stripped down WAR that does nothing. I was only going to > use it for a fleet of data entry interfaces to a cloud-backed amazon RDS > datasource, but need to figure out first how to specify the connection to > the DB inside the WAR file itself. > This stuff is interesting. To keep your experiments going for now you can modify the dhis-support-hibernate/src/main/resources/hibernate-default.properties file (will be located at the root of dhis-support-hibernate.jar inside WEB-INF/lib in the WAR).
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