Elastic Beanstalk
I've been doing some web development lately and when Amazon
announced their
Elastic Beanstalk
Java EE
PAAS, I
decided to take it out for a spin. It's a good first release. The
restriction to eclipse+tomcat makes me a little grumpy, but since
I'm just doing servlets, it's OK. The real killer, the one that's
got me close to abandoning it, is the development round-trip cycle
time. I've gotten totally spoiled by the rapid redeploy feature of
NetBeans+GlassFish. When the cycle time from edit to run is less
than a second, you develop differently. The edit->run time with
elastic beanstalk is a couple of minutes, which totally breaks my
concentration. The upside is that I'm getting better at Solitaire
:-)
