Using Cloud Foundry Services with Spring: Part 2 - Auto-reconfiguration
If you watched the video for the Cloud Foundry launch event, you saw that we deployed the Spring Travel application downloaded from Spring Web Flow samples, bound a MySQL service to it, and dragged and dropped the application to the Cloud Foundry server in STS, without making a single line of change in the application itself. How’s that possible since the application is configured to use a local database? That’s when auto-reconfiguration comes into play.
Cloud Foundry strives to keep your initial investment low. Beyond dollars and cents, a real investment comes from the time that a developer…