
Grails applications on the Internet to deploy is not so simple. Not everyone has to have a virtual or root server is there a Java application server (like Tomcat or Jetty to run).
Provider for the hosting of PHP applications, there are a dime a dozen. If you want to get hosted Java applications, reduce the number of potential candidates already drastically. If you want to then deploy Grails applications and yet still the best free, you can count the providers that offer this, on one hand.
A list of providers, where you can deploy Grails applications will be maintained in the documentation of Grails.
The three providers that currently offer a free trial or developer account, are:
During the first two offer a free trial account, there are Morph AppSpace for developers a free Developer account.
My little Grails application grum runs at Morph Apps and it was amazing there to deploy them easily.
Basically you have to choose between a Morph AppSpace PostgreSQL and MySql database. Jetty as an application server is used.
Even with the registry, the database is created and configured Jetty. The only thing we still make itself must, the database configuration in the file DataSources.groovy register and create the Web archive (with grails) was provided by the Java library, or upload to Ant Task Morph Apps. Done.
In the free developer account, but the application must be deployed again for 31 days inside. If not, the application will go offline and after another 31 days, the web space released.
Update:
Morph AppSpace is currently offering free developer account, unfortunately, not anymore. Sun AppSpace is also my little application Grum no longer hosted at Morph. I'm going to the Google App Engine a look. But probably a few small changes might be necessary (eg JPA instead of Hibernate for persistence). When the time comes, I will describe my experience of course, here in my blog.
Resources:
List of providers for the hosting of Grails applications
Grum at Morph AppSpace
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posted by gklinkmann \ \ tags: frameworks , Grails , Groovy , Java , free