Jesper Joergensen

Editor's Note: The functionality described in this blog post has been replaced by Heroku Button. The Heroku Elements marketplace now lists hundreds of template apps that can be easily deployed. Check out Heroku Elements to find an app to deploy. Learning a new language or framework can be both fun and rewarding. But tutorials only get you so far: one of the easiest ways to get started is by copying an existing sample app. Today we're introducing template-based app creation for Java on Heroku. To try it out, go to www.heroku.com/java and click Create App on one of the four…

UPDATE: Grails 2 support is deprecated and ending on June 1, 2017. For Grails 3, please see the documentation for Deploying Gradle Apps on Heroku, as Grails 3 and onward use Gradle as their packaging mechanism. We're happy to announce the public beta of Grails application deployment on Heroku with support for Grails 1.3.7 and 2.0 provided by the open source Heroku Grails buildpack. Grails is a high-productivity web application framework for the JVM based on the Groovy programming language and featuring many similarities with Rails. Since its inception in 2006, the framework has enjoyed broad adoption in the Java…

Developers with experience in both Java and Ruby web development often ask the question: Why is web app development so complicated in Java, and so much simpler in Ruby, with Rails? There are many ways to answer this question. But importantly, none of them should blame the Java language itself. The people behind Play Framework proved this by creating a Java based web framework that is as elegant and productive as Rails for Ruby. It is our pleasure to announce Play on Heroku in public beta. Play on Heroku Quickstart Download and install Play version 1.2.3 or later. Then, create…