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IBM Worklight - Can Worklight be deployed to an existing WAS server?

Can a Worklight Server be deployed to a WebSphere application server which also runs other non-Worklight .ear applications? Or does Worklight need its own separate instance of WAS?

Solution

  • Just like you can deploy multiple instances of Worklight (v6 and above) projects - multiple .war files to the same WAS application server, there should not be issues to deploy it to an application server running other services.

    That said, possible issues to consider:

    1. When deploying a Worklight project, you will want to enable "application security" (in the WAS admin console, Security > Global Security). If there are some other web applications for which application security is undesired, you need a different WAS server instance.

    2. The list of users that can use the web applications are configured through LDAP or "federated repositories", or similar. If, for Worklight, you need to use a completely different set of user logins than for the other web applications, then you need to use multiple "security domains".

    3. The machine hosting the application server will probably need memory upgrades...

    4. Probably also need to make clear seperation where required: