Guys, Just saw your announcement on supporting Java applications, and I'm very excited about it. I've been working on a rails app deployed on heroku and always wondered if someone would make a heroku for java and, well, here we are. I also work on Gosu (a JVM language) and Ronin (a Gosu-based web app framework) and I would love to get them deployed on Heroku
I'd like to ask you to consider a change to your deployment model, however. I realize that ruby apps deploy with their code in place and so it makes a lot of sense to manage things as a git push as there isn't really a compilation phase. However, java has a much more diverse set of build tools since it is a compiled language: you've got ant, gant, maven, buildr, aardvark (the one I use, Gosu based) and so on. As such, forcing us to use Maven (which has a mixed reputation in the java world) is a tough pill to swallow. So what I'd like to ask you to consider is accepting simple war files, built locally and pushed out to heroku. This takes the build and verification phase out of a deployment and provides a simple, standardized way for us java devs to deploy to heroku. It also opens up the platform to other languages and frameworks: almost all of them provide some way to bundle up a war for deployment. Thanks again for all your great work, Carson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
