Hosting services

I found a neat free service on the web at http://www.mycgiserver.com What's neat is they specialize in providing free Servlet, jsp and SQL (JDBC) hosting services.

The question I have is does anybody here have any experience using a hosting service for Java? I know when I'm working with my own Java web server (Jetty and sometimes Tomcat) I've got to shut the web server down in order to test a change to a servlet. How do these hosting services manage to let you install your servlets without having to bring the server down every minute or two?

cudabean

I successfully wrote, compiled and executed a servlet at mycgiserver.com. It turns out that you can test your servlets immediately after compiling. There is no need to 'cycle' the server either.

One problem: I would like to develop a system that relies on servlets, but only distribute only the compiled classes to my customers. Unfortunately, mycgiserver.com requires that your source code have your username as part of a package name. :mad:

cudabean

I got my servlet up and running:
http://mycgiserver.com/servlet/mcm13...w.slashdot.org
It gives any website a 'french accent' (in this case slashdot)

If you really wanted to get twisted, you could even read this thread with a french accent!
http://mycgiserver.com/servlet/mcm13...hreadid=135465

Then read this sentence:
If you ask me I think it is really authentic . I think this is the best web site I've seen.

cudabean