running .class files on a website

[jklsemicolon]

So I built (and borrowed) a chatroom in java and I want to put it on a website. It works really well on my home computer. How it works is that i run server.class which is stuck in an infinate loop (on purpose) so that it is always running and then applets connect to it. I'm wondering: how i would go about running the .class file on a website that i got from godaddy so that it runs all the time, regardless of whether someone is connecting to it?

[Norm]

To have your code run on a website would require you to talk to the administator for that web site.

[jklsemicolon]

Yeah I was afraid of that... Thanks for your expertise

[mtv134]

I think there might be a workaround
you can create servlet and use the Java runtime API in the servlet to start a new process using the .class file
this needs to be tried
besides is it a dedicated server ?
is it is they will give u access using the shell or something

[fishtoprecords]

you can create servlet and use the Java runtime API in the servlet to start a new process using the .class file this needs to be tried
besides is it a dedicated server ? is it is they will give u access using the shell or something

This answer/suggestion makes zero sense. If you create a servlet, it has to be deployed in a servlet container. There are lots of servlet containers, Tomcat, Resin, JBoss, etc.

All of them require that the machine's system administrator do at least two things:
1) setup the contianer
2) setup so that a developer/user can put the war files in the right place.
They usually have to do related things like open a port in the firewall, or adjust Apache to dispatch to the servlet container.

Whether the server is "dedicated" or not is irrelevant.

[jklsemicolon]

Well all of that went over my head, but is there some way i can remotely access a command prompt for the server so I could install the JRE or something?

[fishtoprecords]

If you can without the permission of the site's sysadmin, you don't want to use that site. Go talk to your sysadmin.

The idea of an unauthorized remote person installing software on someone else's computer is the very definition of malware to me. What the software actually does is not important.

[jklsemicolon]

great point but do you know how i would get in touch with the sysadmin?

[fishtoprecords]

You will have to find the answer to that. Whoever manages the machine.

[jklsemicolon]

well ive decided to install apache on my computer and make my own webserver for the time being... thanks for all the help

[fishtoprecords]

Then you have found a sysadmin, you!