I have a fairly large console application written in Java 7 that manages a fair amount of our order processing.
The application consumes a number of web services for orders, interfaces with a database and inserts data into an ERP system. The requirements of the application specified no user interaction, so Java EE was not considered during project planning.
That being said, one of the initiatives this year is to look to the cloud for ways to eliminate cost and improve efficiency. As such I am trying to determine if a console based application can be deployed to a cloud service such as OpenShift or Heroku with little to no changes.
So, the question is: Can a Java console application be deployed to a cloud service or application server with little to no changes?
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As mentioned below it is possible, but how? What resources should I look at to deploy a jar console application to an application server and have it run successfully?