## Platform architecture

Gradle is arranged into several coarse-grained components called "platforms".
Each platform provides support for some kind of automation, such as building JVM software or building Gradle plugins.
Most platforms typically build on the features of other platforms.

This platform does not provide special support for a particular language or ecosystem.

### JVM platform

This is a platform that builds on the core and software platforms to add support for developing software that runs on the JVM.
This includes software that is implemented using Java, Kotlin or some other JVM language.

This platform provides specific support for Java, Groovy and Scala, and includes the foojay toolchain plugin.

Your code needs to run on [all versions of Java that Gradle supports](platforms/documentation/docs/src/docs/userguide/releases/compatibility.adoc) and across all supported operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux). The [Gradle CI system](http://builds.gradle.org/) will verify this, but here are some pointers that will avoid surprises:

            **BUG!** This issue should not be marked stale by the "stale" workflow.
            Please report it to @gradle/bt-support team
          days-before-issue-close: -1
          close-issue-message: >
            **BUG!** This issue should not be closed by the "stale" workflow.
            Please report it to @gradle/bt-support team
          close-issue-reason: not_planned

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        # Override automatic language detection by changing the below list
        # Supported options are ['csharp', 'cpp', 'go', 'java', 'javascript', 'python']
        language: ['java', 'javascript']
        # Learn more...