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Announcing the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

Dear Amazon EC2 Customer,

We are excited today to introduce the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, a plug-in for the Eclipse Java IDE that makes it easier to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications on Amazon Web Services. With the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, you’ll be able to get started faster and be more productive when building AWS applications.

While working on Java terminal application(actually using Groovy and Typica API library), I receive this announcement message from Amazon. Checking it out immediately with my Eclipse Ganymede version 🙂

A screenshot after installation:

Using Puppet to install Tomcat,MySQL, SVN and Java

In the last blog which features creating a basic module in Puppet here and here, this is a sample init.pp I’ve created to install, tomcat,mysql,subversion,java1.5 and load a database from a dump file. Notice that JDK is installed while accepting the license by using debconf-utils package. Tested in Ubuntu hardy which is launch from Amazon EC2.

Hope this will help some of my friends in their Puppet configurations.

class hostmanager::server {
     file { "/root/db.sql":
         source=> "puppet://$servername/hostmanager/db.sql"
     }
     file { "/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5":
         source=> "puppet://$servername/hostmanager/tomcat5.5"
     }
     $wantedpackages = ["debconf-utils", "mysql-server", "subversion"]
     package { $wantedpackages: ensure => installed }
     package { ["sun-java5-jdk"] :
                   ensure => installed,
                   require => Exec ["accept-license"]
     }
     package { ["tomcat5.5"] :
                   ensure => installed,
                   require => Package["sun-java5-jdk"]
     }
     exec { "informdb-load":
                 command => "mysql < /root/db.sql",
                 path =>"/bin:/usr/bin",
                 subscribe => File["/root/db.sql"],
                 subscribe => Service["mysql"],
                 unless => "mysql informdb -e 'quit'"
                }
      exec { "accept-license":
               command => "echo 'sun-java5-bin   shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1    boolean true<br /> sun-java5-jdk   shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1    boolean true
               sun-java5-jre   shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1    boolean true
               sun-java5-jre   sun-java5-jre/stopthread        boolean true
               sun-java5-jre   sun-java5-jre/jcepolicy note
               sun-java5-bin   shared/present-sun-dlj-v1-1     note
               sun-java5-jdk   shared/present-sun-dlj-v1-1     note
               sun-java5-jre   shared/present-sun-dlj-v1-1     note
               '|debconf-set-selections",

               path =>"/bin:/usr/bin",
               subscribe =>Package["debconf-utils"]
          }
          service { "tomcat5.5":
                ensure => running,
                hasstatus => true,
                hasrestart => true,
                require => Package["tomcat5.5"],
                require => File["/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5"],
               restart => true
         }
         service { "mysql":
               ensure => running,
               hasstatus => true,
               hasrestart => true,
               require => Package["mysql-server"],
               restart => true
        }
}

Let’s start learning more about puppet. 🙂