Free Java hosting options and Heroku tomcat deployment

I wanted to write some java app that would communicate with 3rd party API. The main problem there was that this API requires https connection. So I needed free java hosting to test my concept.

I will describe my short research about free java hosting proposals. And will describe shortly Heroku quick start.

The top of most mentioned books on stackoverflow.com

Top 5:
#1 Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Michael C. Feathers
#2 Design Patterns
Ralph Johnson, Erich Gamma, John Vlissides, Richard Helm
#3 Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
#4 Java concurrency in practice
Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls
#5 Domain-driven Design
Eric Evans

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