jvm
- Engineering
- Last Updated: March 24, 2025
- Andrew Fawcett, Manuel Fuchs
Heroku’s commitment to developer productivity shines through in its powerful buildpack system . They handle the heavy lifting of building your app, letting you focus on what matters most: writing code. A prime example is the Heroku Java buildpack , a versatile tool that simplifies deploying Java applications, especially those built with popular frameworks like Spring Boot, Quarkus, and Micronaut.
One of the core strengths of Heroku buildpacks is their automatic nature. They intelligently detect your application’s language and framework, fetching the necessary build tools and configuring the Heroku platform to run your app seamlessly. This means no more wrestling with…
- News
- Last Updated: December 13, 2012
- Richard Schneeman
Over a year ago Heroku launched the Cedar stack and the ability to run Java on our platform . Java is known as a powerful language – capable of performing at large scale. Much of this potential comes from the JVM that Java runs on. The JVM is the stable, optimized, cross-platform virtual machine that also powers other languages including Scala and Clojure. Starting today you can leverage the power of the JVM in your Ruby applications without learning a new language, by using JRuby on Heroku.
After a beta process with several large production applications, we are pleased to move…
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