Where to host a Restful web service in JAVA in shared hosting solutions

Question

I have just finished developing a REST web service that is consumed by a mobile application. The web service is developed with Java and runs on an Apache server.

I'm now moving to the testing part. And for that purpose, I need to host my web service in a real server. It is a first experience for, and I just knew that using mutualised (shared) hosting does not allow me to host whatever application, in whatever language.

The one I get to use is OVH, which does not support java web services hosting.

Does anybody have any other alternative to provide. It would help a lot!!

Answer 1

Like I said, if it is for testing purposes you could always use a "normal" PC, running something like XAMPP.

As an alternative you could give RedHat's OpenShift a try, which offers a free, getting-started plan (more info here) that should more than cover your testing requirements.

Answer 2

To run your app (in Eclipse) you would need to : Run As -> Run on Server And then select a server. If you haven't done so; I suggest you install a local JBoss/WildFly server (the wizard can take care of that for you). Doing this will display options to run your app either on the local or the OpenShift/rhcloud server.This makes testing faster and allow you to avoid testing on the OpenShift live server.