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Application Server

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A potential client was asking which application server a Mendix application is deployed on locally and which application servers can a Mendix application run off of? Can it, for example, be deployed to Glassfish, Tomcat or Jboss?

asked 2011-10-04

derek gardiner

2 answers

Hans van Kranenburg · Answer 1 · 2011-10-07

No, we have tried to, in 2008-2009, as part of 2.4, but it became a very complex and painful process, and in the end the idea was abandoned. It's as difficult as deploying Jboss into Tomcat, or running Glassfish as an application in Websphere.

Mendix is not a J2EE application, it does not use Servlets and EJBs etc. Mendix is an application server (M2EE, with a wink to Java EE ;) ) for running Mendix applications.

Johan den Haan · Answer 2 · 2011-10-04

Mendix can run stand-alone, it doesn't need an application server. The Mendix Business Server contains a built-in Jetty webserver to handle incoming requests.