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Heroku Enterprise for Java leverages Atlassian’s Bamboo integration service in order to automate the various stages of the application delivery process.[/caption] Heroku, a Salesforce company and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendor, has announced a service for building and running Java applications in the cloud. Heroku claims the service will allow developers to build and deploy those apps “in minutes instead of months” before moving them “to a continuous delivery model,” all without needing to rely on on-premises software or infrastructure. The service supports core Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Java Development Kit (JDK), including JDK 7 and newer JDK 8. Heroku Enterprise for Java also boasts native support for Eclipse, a Java IDE used by many developers, along with direct deployment of Java WAR files (for migrating existing Java applications to the cloud). It leverages Atlassian’s Bamboo integration service in order to automate the various stages of the application delivery process. The service’s other features include a full stack of pre-configured systems for building scalable applications, complete with memcache for session management and horizontal scaling, as well as Postgres for relational data management. On top of that, Heroku Runtime provides separate environments for development and staging, capable of instantaneous provisioning. “Enterprise developers have been looking for a better way to easily create innovative applications without the hassle of building out a back-end infrastructure,” Oren Teich, COO of Heroku, wrote in a Sept. 19 statement. “With Heroku Enterprise for Java, developers get all the benefits of developing in Java along with the ease of using an open, cloud platform in a single click.”
Heroku Enterprise for Java leverages Atlassian’s Bamboo integration service in order to automate the various stages of the application delivery process.[/caption] Heroku, a Salesforce company and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendor, has announced a service for building and running Java applications in the cloud. Heroku claims the service will allow developers to build and deploy those apps “in minutes instead of months” before moving them “to a continuous delivery model,” all without needing to rely on on-premises software or infrastructure. The service supports core Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Java Development Kit (JDK), including JDK 7 and newer JDK 8. Heroku Enterprise for Java also boasts native support for Eclipse, a Java IDE used by many developers, along with direct deployment of Java WAR files (for migrating existing Java applications to the cloud). It leverages Atlassian’s Bamboo integration service in order to automate the various stages of the application delivery process. The service’s other features include a full stack of pre-configured systems for building scalable applications, complete with memcache for session management and horizontal scaling, as well as Postgres for relational data management. On top of that, Heroku Runtime provides separate environments for development and staging, capable of instantaneous provisioning. “Enterprise developers have been looking for a better way to easily create innovative applications without the hassle of building out a back-end infrastructure,” Oren Teich, COO of Heroku, wrote in a Sept. 19 statement. “With Heroku Enterprise for Java, developers get all the benefits of developing in Java along with the ease of using an open, cloud platform in a single click.”
