Java - Platform as a Service

Java EE has been the primary software platform for enterprise and server-side development for more than a decade, and it is increasingly the platform of choice on the cloud. In this article, we will look at the Java cloud space and how you can go about choosing a Java platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, and then take a closer look at Oracle Java Cloud Service. Only a few years back, when someone discussed a Java EE project, it was presumed that the project would also require setting up the requisite hardware infrastructure and having a team to manage and monitor the setup. Java EE was never great at shared hosting, but nobody seemed to care much about that, because shared hosting was almost considered below the dignity of Java EE. It used to be blasphemous for an architect to suggest that a Java EE application could be run in a shared environment. The cloud wave turned this approach on its head. Not only is a shared environment now being considered, it is actually fashionable to be talking about running an application in a shared  environment on the cloud. Java as yet has no cloud-centric specifications in place, so the Java cloud space isn’t as standardized as developers might expect. Yet we find that Java is being used in all kinds of cloud deployments, especially PaaS offerings and software-as-aservice (SaaS) solutions built with Java.