Amazon’s EC2 service provides re-sizable compute capacity or a ‘pay as you use’ model for deploying web applications. This blog entry provides an overview for using such a platform with Java EE applications using a Groovy-based framework.

URL application structures are often an afterthought, with many composed from obscure parameters which only have meaning on server-side applications. The following blog entries explore the creation of friendly URL’s using Strus and JSF, which can further enhance the SEO(’Search Engine Optimization’) process for an application’s content.

The Java collections framework is a staple for almost every enterprise Java project. In this entry, explore how some developers over at Google have extended this library and made these new features publicly available for the Java community.