The RUBiS benchmark is now available as a Xen Virtual Appliance with auto-deployment scripts, integrated monitoring, a new documentation and tutorial videos. The virtual appliance (VA) includes the client emulator, the Tomcat Servlet engine with the latest RUBiS implementation with Hibernate, a database with a pre-loaded RUBiS dump. Ganglia is also used for monitoring. A set of scripts is provided to deploy automatically the different tiers in different VMs needed. Check out the documentation at http://rubis.objectweb.org/download/rubisva_v1.0.pdf for more information.

This new release can be downloaded from the OW2 Forge at http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44&release_id=2821