I've been working on an application for my golf club that will allow us to arrange tee times, sign up and play, and report our scores. I want to build the application with JEE6 technologies like CDI/Weld, JSF2 and JPA2. I started using JavaDB as a database. Then I found OpenShift from RedHat as a hosting alternative. It allows me to build the application locally on JBoss AS7 and then publish it to my OpenShift account using Git. OpenShift also allowed me to change the DB over to MySQL by simply installing MySQL into my account using rhc-ctl-app -a "fw" -e add-mysql-5.1. You can also add phpAdmin to make administration of your DB easier. Here's a good blog on setting up OpenShift, MySQL, phpAdmin and Redmine: https://www.redhat.com/openshift/blogs/phpmyadmin-your-way-into-openshift-express-database-management-bliss
You can see the application running at http://golfplus-basinc.rhcloud.com/. I am now working to get Google Analytics and WebMaster tools hooked up to the application. Once that's done, I can focus on the android cell phone component. I will be reviewing phoneGap, Sencha and Tiggr as alternatives to straight up Android SDK.
