ALIEN 4 Cloud stands for Application LIfecycle ENablement for Cloud.
FastConnect started this project in order to help enterprises adopting the cloud for their new and existing applications in an Open way. A4C has an Open-Source model (Apache 2 License) and standardization support in mind.
You can find more details and informations on the project's website
Alien 4 Cloud is written in java for the backend and requires a JDK 7 or newer (note that we test it using JDK 7 only for now).
- make sure you have a JDK 7 installed
- make sure you have Maven installed (team is using 3.0.5)
- install Ruby
- install Python
- install Node.js to get nom command. Check here http://nodejs.org
- install bower
$ sudo npm install -g bower- install grunt
$ sudo npm -g install grunt-cli- install compass
$ gem install compass- and grunt-contrib-compass
$ npm install grunt-contrib-compass --save-dev