Our SoapBox topic this time has a strong focus on Amazon EC2 and other Cloud Hosting providers. Chris Richardson joined as a co-host for all things 'cloud'. Chris is the founder of Cloud Foundry , which provides automated, outsourced data center management for Java applications on Amazon EC2. He also founded , which makes it easier to deploy Java/Grails applications on Amazon EC2. Cloud Tools is also available as a .

Show Notes

• Oracle buys Sun
• Grails Quick Reference as PDF
• Spring WS Plugin
• Build Test Data Plugin released Blog Post
• Testing Labs Plugin released
• Growler Plugin released
  
• Groovy Transforms (AST) released
• What's new in Groovy 1.6 Slides
• Griffon Logo Contest Winner: TheCarl

Chris Richardson

• Chris Richardson's Blog
• Article about ORM in Dynamic Languages
• Grails Plugin for deploying to Amazon EC2
• Cloud Foundry - outsourced data center management