Redhat OpenShift is free for a certain amount of processing:
https://www.openshift.com. It is enough for educational purpose. Btw, I
strongly recommend to take the project Yougi.org as a reference to learn
and develop JavaEE applications. One of the main purposes of the project is
education.
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Steven Siebert <smsiebe_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> your students might also consider signing up for Amazon AWS - if this is
> their first sign-up, they receive a free 1-year micro instance. I
> previously had GF running on there, may need a little tuning given the
> limited RAM. Just as long as they shut down the micro instance by the end
> of the year, they won't pay anything.
>
> Would also give them some exposure to AWS/cloud provisioning =)
>
> Regards,
>
> S
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com>wrote:
>
>> >>>>> On Tue, 28 May 2013 12:00:25 -0700, Edward Burns <
>> edward.burns_at_oracle.com> said:
>>
>> EB> On 14 May, Steven Van Impe wrote:
>> SVI> I'm currently teaching Java EE (using GlassFish) to undergraduate
>> SVI> students, and am struggling to find a suitable hosting
>> SVI> service. What I'm looking for is a hosting service that:
>>
>> SVI> * is free, or at least offers a free account for one semester.
>>
>> SVI> * is easy enough to use, so that students don't have to go through
>> SVI> me to deploy their apps.
>>
>> SVI> * allows students to administer their own server through the web
>> SVI> interface (to set up resources, realms, \u2026).
>>
>> SVI> * is up to date (I will be switching to GlassFish 4 for the next
>> SVI> semester ).
>>
>> SVI> Can anyone recommend a hosting service ?
>>
>> EB> Arun listed several options in a blog post from January 2011:
>>
>> EB>
>> https://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta/entry/totd_153_glassfish_hosting_options
>>
>> EB> Unfortunately, none of them seem dollar cost free.
>>
>> While this doesn't qualify as hosting in my book, I am forwarding a
>> response sent to me individually.
>>
>> >>>>> On Wed, 29 May 2013 07:10:56 -0700, "emiddio" said:
>>
>> EF> i use http://dyn.com/dns/ since summer 2009; it is free; i have
>> glassfish
>> EF> running on home computer,
>> EF> port forwarding configured on my dsl router; hosts my personal
>> website.
>>
>> EF> it is free - but changed terms so now have to reply to an email
>> 1/month to
>> EF> keep active.
>>
>> Ed
>>
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