DB2 Connect and IBM WebSphere
IBM® WebSphere® provides a more complete e-business solution than is possible with traditional scripting tools, such as PHP. WebSphere Application Servers not only performs the scripting possibilities of PHP, but also allow you to provide complex and high-end services through the web, using servlets, Active Server Pages, and enterprise JavaBeans™ and include support for Web-based technologies such as Java™, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTML, DHTML, XML, MIME, SMTP, IIOP, and X.509, among others. With WebSphere you can:
- Exploit industry standards to speed development and maximize inter-operability
- Plug in third-party tools technologies and application frameworks
- Analyze Web site content performance and usage
- Scale your site easily to accommodate more users and maintain throughput
- Deploy across a number of major operating environments (AIX®, HP-UX, Linux®, Novell NetWare, OS/390®, z/OS®, OS/400®, Solaris operating system, Microsoft® Windows®)
- Use your existing web server, including those from Apache, IBM, Netscape, and Microsoft.
WebSphere is not one product, but a family of three products addressing three different target markets. The heart of the WebSphere solution is the WebSphere Application Server.
WebSphere Application Server provides the environment for three types of objects. One is Java server pages, which are analogous to Active Server Pages. The second component consists of Java servlets, and the third is enterprise JavaBeans. Enterprise JavaBeans are the emerging standard for deploying very large-scale, robust enterprise-class applications.
WebSphere applications can be deployed on the same platform as the web server and DB2®. In the case of the DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for OS/390 and z/OS, DB2 for z/OS, DB2 for VM, DB2 for VSE, DB2 UDB for iSeries™, and DB2 for i5/OS, WebSphere is deployed on the same platform as the DB2 Connect™ server product.
There are several WebSphere solutions, as well as Rational® Application Developer (RAD). For more details, go to http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/
Parent topic: DB2 Connect scenarios