Hello, I have programmed a RESTful API in C# and would like to use the API within my Mendix app. However, I have no other option to host the API/web service myself or with another providers. I want the API to be hosted within the Mendix instanace, Is it possible to run the web service on the same instance as the Mendix app? Is it generally possible to host my own web service via Mendix (I mean included in the Mendix instance)? We wanted to go with Mendix, as this would be the easiest way for us to handle hosting etc. internally. However, if it is not possible to provide our own web service or if there are additional and high costs, then Mendix would not be an attractive solution. Many thanks Dennis
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Dennis Wall
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It is not possible to host your own C# web service directly within a Mendix instance, as Mendix does not support embedding external APIs or services in its runtime. Mendix apps run on their own platform-specific architecture, and hosting external code would require a separate server or cloud service.
You can however make easy API's in Mendix, so you could dump your C# API's ;-)
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Peter Mudde
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Hello,
Thank you very much for the quick reply! But that's a real shame... It will be a bit difficult to implement my API with Java. I want to edit, format and combine Word documents and with Apache POI this seems to be limited. Aspose.Words means additional licence costs again. I would have liked to use OpenXML in C#.