Have you ever had to create a development stack on a machine from scratch to develop on or to check out a new technology?
You have? Then you must have suffered some of the same frustrations and annoyances of ensuring that the prerequisites and dependencies of each component are satisfied; ending up with downloading some huge quantity of software. The plethora of download, installation and configuration steps required just to get to the starting point can be enough to dissuade all but the most tenacious.
The helpful people at Exadel have taken those many steps to get to the starting point and created an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) called Cloud in a box that includes all the components to create Rich Internet Applications (RIA). With an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account you can launch an instance of the image and take your first step to being productive. Read the blog post about it RIA on the Cloud with RichFaces and Ingres and register for a free account on the Exadel Web site for more detailed instructions.
