web hosting/server solution

[ncjbhd]

I am wondering if anyone can offer some advice/tips on a logistical solution to my situation.

I have written a java app that creates several XML documents. The app loops and re-creates the XML documents every 5 minutes. I want to serve these documents out to client java apps.

Now, I have considered hosting a web server on my local machine where I could also run my java server app. But I have heard of people's ISP taking issue with this scenario. I could potentially have several thousand client apps retrieving an XML document every 5 minutes, so hosting this kind of thing locally would probably be a bad idea at some point anyway.

Finding a place to host my site is easy, but where/how can I also have this java server app run? I am a noob to webhosting/server solutions. Any information or ideas would be greatly appreciated.