Swisscom Application Cloud: nodejs with java jdk

Question

I'm trying to deploy a nodejs app to swisscom application cloud. The app uses the node-java module. While staging the app, I get an error message:

[node-java] Error: not found: javac

is it possible to deploy apps with multiple buildpacks (e.g. nodejs and java) like on heroku (besides creating a custom buildpack)?

@UPDATE: I'm (now) aware of the (experimental) multi-buildpack for cloudfoundry. unfortunately it won't detect my app as java app (which isn't) and anyway, it would ony install the jre but not the jdk. Is there a possibility (besides a docker image or custom buildpacks) to have jdk in the app container?

Answer 1

because there seems no way to add custom packages to the cf base image (cflinuxfs2) provided by swisscom, I forked the official cloud foundry buildpack and let it install the openjdk-7-jdk package before doing all the nodejs related stuff (https://github.com/juckerf/nodejs-openjdk-buildpack)

(unfortunately the multi-buildpack with the nodejs buildpack and herokus apt buildpack didn't work for me because the nodejs buildpack was executed before the apt buildpack, regardless of the order in the multi-buildpack.yml)