Hey guys, I have a massive school project for one of my classes and I really want to use JAVA as a server side language (did it in the past as an intern and its just too damn good)

However, I can't find any legit web hosting servers that support JAVA, anyone used one before?

why don't you just run it locally if it's just for school?

i'd try out google app engine. never used it, but other classmates have and it's free afaik

curiously, what web framework are you using? i've heard nothing but bad things about jsf and jsp. i've heard good things about grails though

From personal experience I can tell you that running JAVA server side is the easiest thing ever. Easy to manage, fetch, store things in a database. Easy to make logins and such. Just having an OOP language for it is awesome.

/e I've only used PHP other than JAVA and JSPs, and I enjoyed JAVA a lot more xD

This post was edited by IsraeliSoldier on Jan 27 2013 06:32pm

These guys support java: http://www.webfaction.com/

sounds like what you really love is the ORM (JPA/hibernate/etc), not so much the java web framework.



ah, that explains it. you might want to look into other options further down the road if you think JSP was great. django and asp.net come to mind.

I'm into my 3rd year, I have an internship this summer. I'm trying to bag a .net job with c++ to get more experience in those

I could set this up on my server and give you blah.geekygents.com or whatever ^^

Seriously? that would be awesome xD

I did some googling and couldn't find how to set "server-side java" up on my server
Not sure what all it requires, do I just need java installed on my machine?

I have no idea how it works xD. I'll take a look .