Hello,

Is it possible to deploy NetKernel to an existing app server? It's likely that some of our existing web applications could benefit from leveraging NetKernel. I seem to recall from an earlier visit to the forums that some people were deploying NetKernel as a servlet in their app server environments (GlassFish, WebSphere, etc.) to leverage NetKernel while maintaining their existing app server environment. Is this indeed possible and what are the pros/cons of deploying NetKernel in this manner?

thx in advance

Welcome to the NetKernel forum!

Yes, NetKernel can be deployed as a servlet in a container. There is a case study looking at a system that used this approach:

http://1060research.com/customers/case_studies/trimondo/index.html

I'm not sure about the specific limitations of using this approach. I'll get those specifics and post them here later.

Randy

Hi Kyancy,

yes NetKernel will run fine on a Servlet 2.4 compatible engine, maybe others. Here is the documentation from the distribution:

http://docs.1060.org/docs/3.3.0/book/administratorguide/doc_guide_servlet.html

We have number of folks using it this way but we generally recommend against it if you have a choice as it adds extra complexity to deployment. The inbuilt Jetty HTTP server is very solid.

Cheers,
Tony