Scala and Java UDFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available

GAJul 16, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Register Scala and Java user-defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog and reuse them across notebooks, jobs, and SQL warehouses with Unity Catalog governance. Reuse existing JVM logic and get better performance than Python UDFs on all compute, including serverless. See Scala and Java user-defined functions (UDFs) in Unity Catalog .

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