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.

Configuring Log4j with Java Web Applications + Tomcat

Log4j -  is a Java-based logging utility. Next i will explain hot to configure it with Web App + tomcat.

Tsung: Web Application Performance and Stress Testing

The purpose of Tsung is to simulate users in order to test the scalability and performance of IP based client/server applications. You can use it to do load and stress testing of your servers.You can test with Tsung HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and XMPP/Jabber.