WEBSPHERE

BM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), the worlds leading application server platform. Create, connect and optimise applications for any environment, whether on premises or on a public, private or hybrid cloud. Trusted by 1000’s of customers with millions of applications deployed across the world,

WebSphere continues to innovate with performance and capabilities. Independent performance benchmarks demonstrate a minimum of 25% performance gain over competitor and Opensource alternatives.?WebSphere Liberty?is containerised and micro services ready, built for the next generation of application development.

In addition, by utilising IBM Cloud Paks, you can create on-premises cloud capabilities similar to public clouds to accelerate app development. The platform is built on the open source Kubernetes-based container architecture and supports both Docker containers and Cloud Foundry.

WebSphere Liberty Version.

WebSphere Liberty was introduced into WebSphere Application Server V8.5, originally referred to as the WebSphere Liberty Profile, with the same version numbering scheme as the rest of WAS. In 2016 IBM introduced a new fix pack numbering scheme for Liberty to reflect a move to continuous delivery of Liberty in a single support stream - after V8.5.5.9, the Liberty numbering scheme was rebased starting at 16.0.0.2 to reflect Year and Quarter of the Liberty fixpack release. A common level of WebSphere Liberty is distributed as part of the both Version 8.5 and Version 9.0 of WebSphere Application Server. The Liberty continuous delivery model was introduced to allow new capabilities and features to be delivered on a more frequent basis.

WebSphere Application Server?(WAS) is a software product that performs the role of a?web application server. More specifically, it is a?software framework?and?middleware?that hosts?Java-based?web applications. It is the flagship product within?IBM's?WebSphere?software suite. It was initially created by?Donald F. Ferguson, who later became CTO of Software for?Dell. The first version was launched in 1998. This project was an offshoot from IBM HTTP Server team starting with the Domino Go web server.

IBM WebSphere Application Server, is IBM's answer to the JEE application server. WAS first appeared in the market as a Java Servlet engine in June 1998, but it wasn't until version 4 (released in 2001) that the product became a fully JEE 1.2-compliant application server.

Over the last 10 years, since version 1.2 was released, IBM has invested heavily in WAS and it is developed with open industry standards in mind such as Java EE, XML, and Web Services. WebSphere Application Server is now IBM's flagship for the WebSphere brand and forms the base of many of IBM's extended product range.

The latest release of WebSphere Application Server version 8, is a JEE 6-compliant application server. Every new version is required to provide improved efficiency and continued compliancy with standards, allowing customers who invest in WAS to make use of the new Java capabilities of each new JEE release.

When choosing an application server platform on which to run applications and services, architects and developers need to know that WAS will support new JEE features and improved coding practices. WAS has evolved as a product with each new update of the JEE standard, and IBM has continued to provide new versions of WAS to support available features of each new JEE release.W