JCloudScale

JCloudScale is a Java-based framework for building transparently scaling cloud applications. The goal of JCloudScale is that users can write elastic cloud applications (i.e., applications that dynamically acquire and release resources from a cloud) just like regular Java apps, and let JCloudScale deal with the cloud.

All in all, JCloudScale handles the following tasks:

• Remoting (applications look like regular, local Java applications - remoting between different hosts is handled by JCloudScale)
• Virtual machine management (applications don't need to keep track of virtual resources they have acquired from the cloud)
• Application monitoring (JCloudScale has an integrated event-based monitoring system, which allows applications to keep track of their performance)
• Code distribution (applications don't need to care about getting their code to newly created virtual machines)

To simplify a bit, you can think of JCloudScale as your personal Platform-as-a-Service middleware.

In order to get started, you should check out the following resources:

• Our First Steps guide.
• The full documentation.