One of the action items I took from a recent PMC meeting was
to speak with Amazon about hosting Equinox and other EclipseRT technologies on
EC2. I have had the initial conversation and Amazon seems to be
interested in working with us. Right now we identified two main
areas:
- Making it easy for developers to
build, test and deploy Equinox based applications to an Equinox images
hosted on EC2. The main use case would be developers that are
prototyping Equinox based applications but don’t want to install and
maintain the server component. Amazon has technical evangelist that
could help us setup the appropriate images. We might also be able to
work with the team at Amazon that has created Eclipse plugins for EC2.
- The other area was scalability
testing. Amazon is working with some load testing tools but is open
to others. Are there specific types of load testing tools that
people use for testing RAP or Equinox?
The next step is for 1-2 technical people from the EclispeRT
team to have a phone call with the Amazon technical people. Is there
anyone that wants to volunteer to help push this forward?
Thanks
Ian
Ian Skerrett
Director of Marketing
Eclipse Foundation
613-224-9461 ext. 227
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