WebSphere Application Server

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WebSphere Application Server
Administration and Configuration Guide

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IBM® WebSphere® Application Server offers options for a faster, more flexible Java application server runtime environment with enhanced reliability and resiliency. It supports single server environments and medium-sized configurations, as well as dynamic web applications requiring web tier clustering over multiple application server instances.

WebSphere Application Server helps you:

  • Increase developer productivity with open standards and broad programming models, including lightweight options for web deployments.
  • Deploy and manage applications and services without the constraint of time, location or device type.
  • Includes the Liberty profile, which is a highly composable, dynamic application server profile.
  • Enhance security and control using integrated management and administrative tools.

Increase developer productivity

  • Provides Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) support and certification.
  • Includes the Liberty profile that delivers faster restart time and is small in size for building applications that do not require the full Java EE environment.
  • Supports IBM WebSphere SDK Java Technology Edition V7.0 as an optional pluggable JDK. Java 6 is installed with the product and used by default.
  • Supports Web 2.0 and Web Mobile, Java batch, XML, Service Component Architecture (SCA), Communications Enabled Applications (CEA), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and dynamic scripting languages.
  • Tool bundles available that include WebSphere server adapters and Rational Application Developer.

Deploy and manage applications and services

  • Enables you to modernize and reuse existing, packaged and legacy applications and extend them to the web.
  • Lets you migrate applications from non-IBM servers such as Tomcat, JBoss and Oracle.
  • Includes developer tool options to meet project development needs, enhanced migration toolkit support, and support for the Web 2.0 and mobile toolkit.

Includes the Liberty profile, which is a highly composable, dynamic application server profile.

  • Simple configuration; it is a single xml file with text editor friendly syntax
  • Dynamic and flexible. The run time loads only what your application needs and recomposes the run time in response to configuration changes.
  • The server start is very fast - under five seconds for a basic web application.

Enhance security and control

  • Supports Kerberos authentication and single sign-on.
  • Provides Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) token support.
  • Uses automatic resource management, where the Java framework closes statements and connections to external resources.
  • Filters records based on the content of log and trace record extensions. Also tracks the unique IDs of requests.
  • Enables you to audit changes made to your application server configuration using repository checkpoints.

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System requirements

The following minimum operating system and hardware requirements must be met on the server to support the basic installation and use of WebSphere® Application Server.


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WebSphere Application Server for Developers is a fully licensed product available for download at no charge. Support for both 32-bit and 64-bit SDK is included.

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* You will be prompted to download and install IBM Installation Manager. The installation sets a preference to connect to an IBM-hosted remote repository that contains the product code. After you have Installation Manager running, use your IBM ID and password to authenticate with the IBM repository and you will then be able to install the product and selected fixes.

** Use Download Director or HTTP to download IBM Installation Manager and product repositories archives to create local repositories. After the download is complete, install IBM Installation Manager. Next, unpack each of the product repository archives to a common directory path. Start IBM Installation Manager and go to the Repository preferences to add paths to each of the unpacked product repository locations. Finally, select the Install option to install product.

Delivers enhanced programming models, security, management and Liberty extensibility support

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IBM® WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 builds on the strengths of previous versions with enhancements for an agile business and application foundation. With continued focus on the lightweight Liberty profile introduced in the previous update, V8.5.5 provides enhancements to this small footprint with increased capabilities and qualities of service.

WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 enhancements include additions to Liberty programming models and enhanced security and management, in addition to extending Liberty capabilities with custom System Programming Interfaces. Key enhancements in V8.5.5 include:

  • Support in the Liberty profile programming model for EJB-Lite, CDI, Web Services, Java Messaging, and Message Driven Beans;
  • Ability to extend the Liberty profile capabilities through feature additions
  • Developer tool options match project development needs
  • New Liberty administrative management model; static clustering; security enhancements; integrated elastic caching through WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
  • For full profile WebSphere Application Server, new Service mapping capabilities, enhancements to SIP

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