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Running a Mendix solution in a websphere container

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Hi we are investigating the feasibility of running a mendix based solution inside a websphere application server. I have found some older posts on this topic that seem to indicate that this is possible but nog adviced. What is the current viewpoint on deploying mendix applications in a websphere application server?

asked 2014-09-29

Han Pieter Duyverman

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Hans van Kranenburg · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-29

Hi HP,

Back in 2008, I did some research on this topic, together with Achiel. That was in the Mendix 2.4.0 days. ;-) While trying to do so, we discovered something that we actually already knew.. The Mendix runtime is an application server itself.

Trying to run Mendix inside Websphere is as difficult as trying to run JBoss in Websphere, or to run Websphere in Tomcat. It possibly can be done, but it needs a huge rewrite of many core parts of the product only to adjust it to work together with that specific other application server.

If Websphere is your application server to deploy java code, then Mendix is your application server to deploy a mendix application model.

I guess the current 'viewpoint' is not that different from back then.

Hans