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Use IBM Lotus Forms on the cloud

Create a car repair application with Lotus Forms Turbo AMI on EC2

Sam Boucot (boucot@gmail.com), Consultant and writer, Freelance

Sam Boucot graduated with a B.S. in mathematics from the University of California in 1986 and has worked for many years as a business systems analyst on large, complex ERP applications at several Fortune 500 companies.

Aaron Olds (amolds@hotmail.com), Systems Engineer, Freelance

Aaron Olds graduated with a M.S. in computer science from Portland State University in 2004. He has worked as a systems engineer on large, complex enterprise applications at several Fortune 500 companies.

Summary: IBM Lotus Forms help organizations of all sizes automate their business processes through data capture, review, approval, and submission of eForms. Lotus Forms can be run from the cloud, which significantly lowers the cost of ownership and dramatically increases scalability. In this tutorial, learn how to write a simple application that allows a small car repair company to track its customers using Lotus Forms, and then run it on the cloud using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). No prior cloud computing experience is necessary.

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Date: 29 Jun 2010
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This tutorial is for programmers who want to get some experience with cloud computing by creating a Lotus eForm on EC2. Prior forms design experience is desirable, but not necessary. Some familiarity with configuring software on Linux® and with SSH would also be beneficial, but is not required.

About this tutorial

The cloud computing revolution began in 2006 when Amazon started providing access to its services through Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a pay-as-you-use basis. The definitions of cloud computing vary, but this technology is often defined as something that involves hosting services over the Internet. There are a few other requirements for cloud computing, which are discussed in the next section. Amazon continues to be one of the major players in cloud computing, and IBM is fast becoming an important player as well. Some of the other leaders are Akamai and Joyent.

Lotus eForms can help customers create surveys, applications, feedback mechanisms, orders, requests for submission, and more. Later in the tutorial, you will learn that building a Lotus eForm is very simple.

This tutorial teaches you to write a simple application for the Car Care Repair Shop that tracks important information about its customers using Lotus Forms and how to run it on Amazon EC2. By completing this tutorial, you will learn about the following:

The cloud computing revolution
Getting started with AWS
Launching an EC2 instance preloaded with Lotus Forms
Configuring Lotus Forms
Writing a simple application using Lotus Forms
Running the application

Prerequisites

To follow along with this tutorial, you will need to have the following access and software installed and running on your computer:

An AWS account. You'll receive detailed instructions on setting up an account in the Getting started with AWS section.
SSH Client. Several instances are available based on OS/distribution. For Windows®, we will use PuTTY.
Secure Copy. Several are available. We will use WinSCP.

Find links for all of the tools in Resources.

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