alien4cloud
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alien4cloud
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ALIEN 4 Cloud means Application LIfecycle ENablement for Cloud. It is a project started by FastConnect in order to help enterprises adopting the cloud for their new or even existing applications in an Open way meaning with Open-Source model (Apache 2 License) and standardization support in mind.

You can find more informations on the project on the website:
http://alien4cloud.github.io/index.html

## Building Alien 4 Cloud

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 and grunt-contrib-compass
gem install compass
npm install grunt-contrib-compass --save-dev

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