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WebSphere Application Server packages for V5.1
The WebSphere Application Server family of interoperable products provides a next-generation appserver on an industry-standard foundation. The IBM WebSphere Application Server family is divided into the following packages for V5. Each edition addresses a distinct set of scenarios and needs. WebSphere Application Server includes:
- WebSphere Application Server Express (not pictured below)
This edition is a lightweight server for static content, servlets, and JavaServer Pages (JSP) files, but does not support enterprise beans.
- WebSphere Application Server
This edition addresses the basic programming and run-time needs of desktop developers and single-server production scenarios. The run-time environment for this edition addresses standards-based programming for Web and component-based programming, as well as Web services.
The administration model for this edition presumes a single-server environment with no clustering for failover or workload balancing, and with no centralized administration of multiple server instances. However, you can add a stand-alone node to a centrally administered network (the cell) at any time after installing the following product, Network Deployment that controls the cell.
- WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
This edition addresses appservers running in multiple-server production scenarios. It provides centralized administration, as well as basic clustering and caching support.
- WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation (previously IBM WebSphere Application Server Enterprise) builds on the industry leading IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment to deliver a next generation composite application platform optimized for building service-oriented applications that extend and integrate your existing IT assets.
With the V5.1 release, IBM WebSphere Application Server Enterprise has been re-branded as WebSphere Business Integration and renamed to IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation to improve product alignment and positioning as the foundation for higher value IBM WebSphere Business Integration solutions.
The product value proposition and functionality remain unchanged. Future releases of IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation will focus on enhancing product integration capabilities, including maintaining and enhancing the process choreography and business rule features and adding new integration capabilities and easier-to-use tools.
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation will continue to build on the IBM WebSphere Application Server and will maintain its commitment to J2EE and open standards.
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition V5.1 (name unchanged) is a comprehensive Eclipse-based composite application development environment for building service-oriented applications that extend and integrate your existing IT assets.
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition V5.1 is optimized for building integrated applications and business processes that deploy to IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1. WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition includes all of the features available in IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer v5.1.1.
- WebSphere Application Server for z/OS (not pictured)
This edition integrates the WebSphere Application Server product and the Network Deployment product into a single package that leverages the unique qualities of service inherent to the z/OS platform. It addresses standards-based programming for Web and component-based programming, as well as Web services, and provides centralized administration of multiple server instances, as well as basic clustering and caching support.
Installation images in WebSphere Application
Server packages that are currently available for V5.1. The following
packages are available for V5.1, which supports the Java 2 SDK 1.4.x
specification.
Description of installation images
The WebSphere software platform for e-business starts with a foundation formed from Web application serving and integration. The WebSphere Application Server family lets you quickly, reliably and flexibly enable your business for the Web. It provides the core software to deploy, integrate and manage your e-business applications. WebSphere Application Server supports custom-built applications, based on integrated WebSphere software platform products, or on other third-party products. Such applications can range from dynamic Web presentations to sophisticated transaction processing systems.
IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application
Server Network Deployment, and WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation are interoperable building blocks.
The base product CDs are included in the Network Deployment package. The Network
Deployment package CDs are included in the Integration Server package.
- The Application Clients installation image
contains the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Application Clients support,
the WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation client programming model
extensions, the CORBA C++ client, the Applet client (Windows only), and the
ActiveX to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) bridge client support (Windows platforms
only). The image also contains the embedded messaging client support for
the native Java Message Service (JMS) provider in WebSphere Application Server
products.
- The WebSphere Application Server product installation
image contains the core appserver runtime, a native JMS provider
(the embedded messaging feature), IBM HTTP Server, IBM Developer Kit, IBM
Cloudscape, XML and XSL parsers, the deployment tool, the node agent for
communicating to the deployment manager when it is part of a cell, and the
external adapter library for proxy caching enablement.
The application assembly tool is no longer a feature of the base WebSphere Application Server product beginning with V5.1. The assembly toolkit replaces the application assembly tool. The assembly toolkit is available on the IBM WebSphere Application Server Toolkit CD in the product package. The assembly toolkit consists of the J2EE Perspective of the WebSphere Studio Application Developer product, including code generation capabilities.
- The Deployment Manager product installation image contains the
deployment manager configured for use in departmental production computing
scenarios. It includes the embedded messaging client feature, the Version
2 compliant universal description, discovery, and identification (UDDI) registry
feature, and the Web services gateway feature. Although the Network Deployment
package includes the base Application Server CD, installing the Network Deployment
product does not install the base Application Server product. You must use
the base product CD to install the base product.
- The Edge components installation image contains IBM HTTP Server,
and edge of network support for the Load Balancer (dispatcher)
and Caching Proxy (edge caching), as well as support for network authentication
and single sign-on.
- The WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation installation image contains programming model extensions
to the core Application Server, such as business rule beans and process choreographer,
and deployment manager extensions for administering functions included in
the programming model extensions. Integration Server supports an umbrella installation,
which automatically installs the base product in the same installation procedure.
Although the Integration Server package includes the Network Deployment product CD, installing Integration Server does not install the Network Deployment product. You must use the Network Deployment product CD to install the Network Deployment product.
If you install the Integration Server product on a machine with an installed Network Deployment product, the Integration Server product extends the Network Deployment administrative console.
Although the Integration Server package includes a separate base WebSphere Application Server product CD, installing Integration Server on a clean machine automatically installs the base Application Server product in an umbrella installation.
If you install Integration Server on a machine with an installed base Application Server product, Integration Server extends the base Application Server product, while automatically installing any base product features that Integration Server requires.
- The WebSphere MQ and WebSphere MQ Event Broker installation images in V5.0 provide the non-embedded full-function WebSphere MQ Queue Manager for reliable, dynamically load balanced asynchronous messaging for more than 35 platforms.
Included with all packages are the Data Direct Technologies JDBC Drivers and the IBM WebSphere Application Server Toolkit (ASTK) compact disks (CDs).
Also included with the V5.1 base product and the Network Deployment product are the WebSphere Application Server, V5 for iSeries CDs. The Integration Server product for V5.1 is not supported on iSeries servers at this time.
In addition, the Network Deployment package includes the IBM Directory Server and the DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition products.
Node
Cells
Clusters and workload management