Forklifting an Application to the Cloud

About this Presentation

This talk looks at how to move existing applications to a PaaS like Cloud Foundry or Heroku. This talk isn’t about building an application that’s optimized for the cloud, it’s about taking that first step with legacy applications. We’ll look at the things that tie existing applications to legacy platforms and how to loosen those bindings.

The goal here is to walk away with things that can be done quickly to get the application up and running in its new home among the clouds. We’ll look at how to break the reliance on JNDI, how to move distributed transactions with JTA, how to get reliable HTTP session replication (and then some!), how to retain security concerns and how to move to a much easier deployment model.