amashhour1974 / ecommerce

A1 Electronics Ecommerce Sample Application

This repository contains code and support files for the book "Learning AWS".

Running ecommerce application locally

git clone https://github.com/a1electronics/ecommerce
mvn tomcat7:run 

The URL to launch the application is http://localhost:8888/a1ecommerce

Setting up the build enviornment in Spring Tool Suite / Eclipse

###Prerequisites:

1. Spring Tool Suite (STS) or Eclipse.Download STS (http://spring.io/tools/sts) or Eclipse (https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-developers/lunasr1). We recommend using STS as it has spring tooling built in.

2. Maven 3 (http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/installation.html).

3. git command line tool (https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git).

4. Eclipse with the m2e plugin. m2e is installed by default when using the STS.

###Steps

1. From command line first checkout from the github

   git clone https://github.com/a1electronics/ecommerce

to run the application from command line

mvn tomcat7:run 

The URL to launch the application is http://localhost:8888/a1ecommerce

2. To build it from STS you will need to import the project. Open

File -> Import -> Maven -> Existing Maven project

CloudFormation script

You can execute the cloudformation script a1ecommerceaws.json from command line if the AWS cmdline is installed in your machine. please read Scripting auto scaling in chapter 4 to install the AWS command line tools.

To create the CloudFormation stack fire the follwoing on the command line

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name a1ecommerce --template-body file://a1ecommerceaws.json --region=us-east-1

The script might fail due to an unavailable availability zone .

To fix it first query AWS for the available availability zones

aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region=us-east-1

and then replace the value of "AZ" on line 264,268 with any AZ except us-east-1a