Multi-Runtime

BoxLang can be deployed to multiple runtimes

BoxLang has been designed with a lightweight, fast, and modular core. The operating system binary is a whopping 6MB in size. This allows us to build on this binary according to the deployed runtime of choice. Check out our installation methods.

Available Runtimes

The currently available and in-development runtimes are the following:

Runtime	Description	Status
OS	Bare metal runtime for any OS Java runs in	Done
JSR-223	Java scripting interfaces	Done
MiniServer	A pure Java webserver built with BoxLang	Done
Servlet WAR	A servlet capable war	Done
CommandBox	A BoxLang engine for CommandBox	Done
AWS Lambda	Ability to run BoxLang with AWS Lambda	Done
Docker	BoxLang CLI, MIniServer and CommandBox images	Done
Azure Functions	Ability to run BoxLang with Microsoft Functions	In Progress
Google Cloud Functions	Ability to run BoxLang with Google Cloud Functions	In Progress
Android	Ability to run BoxLang in Android Devices	In Planning
iOS	Ability to run BoxLang in iOS Devices	In Planning
WebAssembly	Ability to run BoxLang as WebAssembly compiled code	In Planning

The core impetus of BoxLang is to grow in a hierarchical approach to target specific runtimes with specific behavior for particular runtimes. For example, the concept of a FORM, URL scope, or web functions and components are only available to those runtimes that offer web support.

Just because a runtime is not listed here doesn't mean BoxLang can't run there. These are just a collection of officially supported runtimes. You can use the core runtime and make it run ANYWHERE the JVM can be run. You can embed it now in Android, Azure, OpenWhisk, and more. However, once we have official runtimes, we will post them here.

All of our runtime source code can be found in our organization: https://github.com/ortus-boxlang

Third-Party Runtimes

We love our community, and if you have created custom runtimes for BoxLang, please let us know, and we will add them here.