Is wildfly 8 an acceptable alternative to jboss eap 6.1? Clearly there is t

Well after some experimentation I can say that wildfly 8 has some rather major changes within it. I have not been able to persuade it run in a stable manor, in addition it is still RC state and not yet a finalised product. Best to see if appian-ps respond to this query with anything further to add.

I am also interested in this topic. Would PS please provide an answer.

Wildfly is not compatible or supported with Appian. EAP, weblogic or websphere are the compatible app servers.

Thanks Myles. So EAP developer version is fine for Appian DEV or TEST systems. For production we need "real" EAP.

Generally, yes. Some of this also depends on your agreement with Redhat.

Thanks for the clarification Myles. We have been looking at provisioning EAP as our primary option as well. Is there a technical reason to sign up for the redhat support agreement? Seeming as EAP 6.1/6.2 are available under LGPL it looks like we would be OK to use this in a production environment. Admittedly we would lack the support offered under the Redhat Middleware product group. Just curious as to potential performance benefit this might offer, if any given that I would expect Redhat to provide a production optimised build as part of the agreement.
I am not expecting a definitive answer, just looking for info to take back with me so anything you can suggest or comment on would be appreciated.
Thanks, James

@James, I am just curious to know if you were able to get Appian to run with WildFly as the application server?

Hi Claudius, no I was not able to use wildfly as an alternative, I would also add that wildfly is a community product so it is unlikely you will find much in the way of official support. I went down the Appian approved route in the end with Jboss EAP.

Thanks for the info James.

I was not able to deploy Appian on WildFly. I got a ClassCastException when Appian started up, relating to a Hibernate class. Also, I don't think running Appian is legal on JBoss EAP Developer Edition. That edition is for people developing Java applications to run on JBoss, whereas this is about running Appian which is itself a Java application. So the only recourse available is to use a licensed version of JBoss EAP.