A few weeks ago at the last slug meeting I volunteered to do a JavaEE crash course / demo the following month. I wanted to do so since JavaEE is a very nice stack that I develop on for a living but is also know to be a pain for newbies to get started with. Even as an experienced developer getting a full JavaEE environment up takes a bit of time. So that I didn’t wreck my current website I built/purchased a new server and set everything up on that. The plan is once the presentation is over I can continue to use that stack to redo chotchki.us.

Server Hardware:

• Intel Atom D525
• Mini ITX Case
• 2 x 500GB hard drives salvaged from my old desktop
• 4GB of RAM

Base Software Setup:

1. Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit
2. Btrfs in a RAID 1

From that I proceeded to setup a very simple JavaEE stack.

• Gitosis
• Maven 2
• Tomcat 6
• Apache 2.2
• Jenkins
• Postgresql 9.0

The main urls are live right now, but the server is only exposed over ipv6 since I only have one public ip address. The best part of this setup is that a git push will result in an auto redeployed web site!

• GitWeb
• Jenkins
• Demo Site

If anyone is curious about how the setup is done under the hood, please feel free to ask, or show up to the next slug meeting!