Your dev team is spot on. The Java market does not have a solid Cloud Platform so far because most vendors go their own way to support Java (Heroku and CloudFou

Your dev team is spot on. The Java market does not have a solid Cloud Platform so far because most vendors go their own way to support Java (Heroku and CloudFoundry are the example of going their own way). The only Java-friendly PaaS so far is Jelastic simply because they support GlassFish and Tomcat utilizing standard deployment model. But Jelastic does not provide the infrastructure (data-center or AWS, whichever), they partner with hosting providers, which I think is not a great move. If AppFog can come up with a more standard/sane Java PaaS model out there, you guys can win that particular market. If I may suggest more: 1) Tomcat 7 instead of the older 5 or 6. The JavaEE landscape has changed significantly from J2EE 4 to JEE 5 to JEE 6 in which each major version moves toward _way_ less code and reduce XML/settings/configurations to a very minimum. 2) TomEE (if possible, or as "add-on"/next-level offerings) Tomcat 7 implements a subset of JavaEE 6 (known as the "web-profile": Servlet[controller], JSP[template], JSF[view/controller], Dependency Injection, JPA[orm]) Enterprises who are still in love with EJB 3.x need TomEE. 3) Maven for deployment (feature/option) Use Maven for deployment.