Java development 2.0 Easy EC2 (and Grails)

Fellow ThirstyHeader Andy Glover has another article out in his Java Development 2.0 series. This one is Easy EC2: Quickly create a CRUD Web application and run it on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Of course, the "quickly" part of the article is courtesy of Grails. Here is the abstract:

Provisioning an EC2 instance for hosting a Java™ Web application is a snap. In this Java development 2.0 column, you'll quickly build a Web application that leverages Groovy, Spring, and Hibernate (via the Grails framework) and deploy it on an EC2 instance.