General

What is CloudBees RUN@cloud, and why would I use it?

RUN@cloud is a cloud-computing platform that empowers developers with tools and services to build, manage, and scale JVM applications. CloudBees provides an end-to-end application environment that lets developers quickly build, deploy, and scale Java web applications using standard Java frameworks and APIs and libraries, written in any JVM language (oh, and a fully managed database service as well!).

Does CloudBees require applications to use proprietary APIs?

No, your applications use the standard Servlet and JDBC APIs, so your applications are portable and can be deployed into any Java EE/Servlet environment.

Can I use frameworks and classes not provided by the pre-defined application templates?

Absolutely yes. You are free to use any classes or libraries that can be packaged and run from a standard web archive (WAR file). This includes any of your own code or 3rd-party libraries and frameworks. The application templates provided in the application wizards are only to help developers get started with some of the most popular Java application frameworks. If you don't want to use any of the frameworks provided by the templates, we suggest starting your application using the Basic application template (this will be the default).

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