The Stax team has been working on a new set of tools for Java developers who use Apache Maven to manage their projects. We'd like to get an early version of this toolset into the hands of some Maven developers for some initial feedback and testing. If you are interested in using Maven to build and deploy your Stax applications, please check out this Stax Maven tutorial wiki page, and let us know how it goes. Please commen… Continue

The Stax Java and MySQL services underwent maintenance today (Sunday, Oct 25) between 5:30PT-9:15PT. All applications and databases were rolled to upgraded servers. These upgraded servers provide some new underlying services that will be the basis of some new features we will be rolling out over the next month. Please let us know if you find any issues or have any questions.

Maintenance Notes:
- One of the global application DB clusters was inaccessible between 8:55-9:05 PT. Applications that a… Continue

The Stax service is undergoing maintenance today (Sunday, Oct 25) between 4:30PT-8:30PT. During the time the Stax admin will be unavailable and all running application will be rolled to new servers.

We pushed an update this evening that greatly simplifies the deployment of Grails applications to the Stax Cloud. The process of creating and deploying a Grails application now consists of the following basic steps:

Create the app:
# grails create-app myapp
Write your code and test locally:
# grails run-app
Generate the application WAR file:
# grails war
Deploy the war to the Stax Cloud:
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The Stax SDK has been updated to 0.3 and is now available for all Stax developers to use. This update of the SDK includes:

• a new set of management commands that make it easier to create and delete Java application and MySQL database resources from the command line


• a new Web-based Query API that allows Stax resources to be managed programmatically and to integrate Stax into release engineering processes


• a new applicatio

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