OutSystems Detach
OutSystems offers its own "Detach" capability for extracting applications from the platform. It's a real feature worth understanding on its own terms, not dismissing — but it solves a narrower problem than a full migration to owned, idiomatic code.
What Detach does
OutSystems' Detach feature exports the code the platform generates for your application, giving you a copy that doesn't depend on the OutSystems runtime going forward. For teams that mainly want a snapshot of what exists today, this can be a meaningful first step.
Where it stops
What Detach exports reflects OutSystems' internal code-generation patterns, not the idiomatic structure a human engineering team would write directly. It's readable in the sense that it compiles — not necessarily in the sense that a new team can maintain it comfortably.
Detach gives you code in roughly the shape OutSystems already runs it in — it doesn't help you decide whether Java, .NET, or another target actually fits your team, nor restructure the output toward that target's idioms and conventions.
The alternative
Adapt's factory works from the OML source model directly — not the generated runtime output — to produce genuinely idiomatic code in your chosen target stack, with behavioral equivalence tests verifying the conversion against your live system. See how we use AI for the full method.
See it verified
See our case studies page for a complete sample migration with attribute coverage and test results — not a vague claim.
Next step
Send us the basics and we'll give you an honest read — including whether Detach alone might actually be enough for your situation.