IBM AND BUSINESS PARTNER SALES TRAINING ONLY

Introduction to WebSphere Application Server Part 1

Kathy Terry C.D.P., C.C.P.
Worldwide WebSphere Evangelist and Sales Leader
Kathyt1@us.ibm.com

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 Learning objectives
Upon completion of this session, you will be able to

Discuss why WebSphere Application Server (WAS) is needed and

how it is used.

Discuss important WAS features, their benefits, and how they are
used to solve client business issues.

Explain how commercial and open source Java application servers

compare to WAS.

Discuss the WAS family editions and licensing options.

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 IT today - pressure from all sides

Line of Business
Deliver my new application, quickly

Vendors
CFO
Standardize
Reduce cost,
Enable Mobile
use what you have,
Expert Systems
meet regulations
Cloud

Consultants
Strategy and change

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 Java Application Server origins
1995: Mantra for Java was Write once, run everywhere!

Application code (apps) should be platform independent.

Java is platform independent.

Programs written and compiled in Java run similarly on any supported

hardware / operating system platform.

IBM donated part of our development environment to the then new Eclipse
Open Source Community. IBM still uses Eclipse as a foundation for
Rational Application Developer (RAD).

HISTORY: Application Servers are over 40 years old. include CICS, IMS TM etc
applications running companies' business using COBOL, PL/1

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 What is an application server?

A platform providing
Application infrastructure based on the Java
Enterprise Edition (JEE) standard.
Integration of data and applications.
A Java runtime environment.

The application server makes possible

The enabling of applications for the Web (internet) so
businesses reach new clients and revenue sources.
The integration of legacy applications, systems and data.
The handling of complex, heterogeneous client environments
for applications.

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 What is WebSphere Application Server (WAS)?
Shields the developer - allows them to focus on business logic for Java
applications that will run on any WebSphere Application Server.

Provide Integrate
Host Newly
Access to Existing
Programmed
Business Java Application Business
Business Logic
Logic Logic and
Data

Written in Java conforming to

Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) standards

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 What is WebSphere Application Server (WAS)? (contd)
Shields the developer - allows them to focus on business logic for Java
applications that will run on any WebSphere Application Server.

Application Servers shield the application from platform specifics,

making it easier for the developer to create Java applications.

Provide support for standard services including:

Web Services
Embedded Messaging
Transaction Integrity
Workload Mgmt
Connection Mgmt
Communications
High Availability
Security
Systems Mgmt
and more

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 Why does a customer need WAS?
The Problem:
The cost of development is rising, but budgets are declining.
It is difficult to deliver high performance and key customer service level
agreements at low cost.
New applications need to make the most of existing applications and services.
There is increasing demand for mobile applications
Developers need to deliver new and custom applications faster than before.

The Solution: WebSphere Application Server

Benefits:
It delivers innovative capabilities to run the business during peak periods.
It supports the latest open standards and programming models to easily add innovative
capabilities.
It enables developers to be productive with integrated tools.
It achieves faster ROI with SOA reusing applications and services.
It enables quick delivery of web based applications for mobile devices, Communications
Enabled Applications (telephony) etc.

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 Additional reasons why customers may need WAS
They are running web applications (big and small) supporting JEE standards that can integrate
both data and applications.

Their developers use WAS for unit testing which makes it easier for them to do development
and improve delivery time with less skills.

There are problems/errors when moving between phases of the development life cycle, and
other issues with Open Source (JBoss, TomCat) or Oracle application server competitors.

LOB projects are requiring mobile support now, and they dont have the skills.

Applications need to run seamlessly on all distributed servers and/or z without Java code
changes.

Their developers want easy to use latest and greatest wizards, frameworks and toolkits while
operations and system administrators want to improve performance of deployed applications.

Their LOB and executives want high performance applications to meet business needs during
peak demand periods.

WAS limited usage licensing in other products (BPM, IBM Worklight, WebSphere Commerce,
WebSphere Portal, and many business partner solutions) can result in the need for additional
WAS licenses for performance reasons.
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 WebSphere Application Server highlights
WAS runs the business - web and mobile applications, telephony support
and more from the smallest to the largest businesses in the world.

Features Benefits
Choice of server runtimes from lightweight and
Fast, flexible, flexible to highly robust and resilient
and simplified Broad programming model support
JEE Standards based Java runtime environment
development Enhanced developer tools

Secure, scalable, highly available runtime

Operational Linear scalability through in memory data grid
Runs on all major platforms
Excellence High performance and near-continuous availability

Exploits mobile and telephony to reach new clients

Ongoing and markets
Develop, test and run on one application platform
Innovation Public and Private cloud enablement
Optimized data access (SQL and NoSQL)
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Web 2.0 and Mobile tools enable anytime, anywhere application access

Support for popular smartphones and

tablets
Rapid delivery of outstanding user
experiences through innovative user
interface services

Value for LOB:

Deliver web applications to mobile devices
Reach new clients

Additional benefits:
Reduces overall TCO
Reduces time to market
Delivers attractive user experience
Reduces cost

This toolkit extends WebSphere desktop applications to mobile devices

to satisfy end user demand for better anytime, anywhere access.
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 WAS and Communications Enabled Applications (CEA)
Simply and rapidly adding communications capabilities like Click to Call and
Co-browsing to web applications using existing skills and a SOA approach.

Business Value: Improve user experience & satisfaction

to help increase revenue potential & reduce costs

Key features:
Simplicity: 4 lines of code enable any CEA
widget onto an existing or new web application

Widgets: customizable & extensible

Two-way synchronized forms

Click to call
Contact center co-browsing
Peer to peer co-browsing
Peer to Peer Click to Call
Co-Browsing Co-Browsing
Communications Enabled Applications (telephony) video Two-way
Synchronized Forms

LOB use case: Deliver personalized services through application innovation

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 Full profile (traditional) WebSphere Application Server

Allows the application developer to focus on business logic

Supports Communications Enabled Applications (as an example)

Provides a set of standardized services
Web services High availability
Embedded messaging Security
Workload management Systems management
Full JEE support Transaction integrity
Shields the application from platform specifics and is JEE
standards based

Full profile WAS does everything, but

- It is very big.
- It is optimized for production operation, not application development.

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 WAS Liberty: a very lightweight application server

The following apply to the WAS Liberty profile and WAS Liberty Core:

A focus on development and operations experiences

Small footprint test server runtime

Simplified, shareable configurations

Fastest possible server start-up

Fidelity with full profile WebSphere Application Server editions

(WAS, WAS Express, WAS ND, WAS for z)

Free for developers with no expiration

A focus on web and mobile applications

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 WAS Liberty Core edition
WAS Liberty Core is a new WAS edition starting with V8.5.5.

It is the entry point into the WAS family for JEE Web Profile
applications not requiring the full Liberty profile or full profile WAS
capabilities.

It was developed to help streamline test and production scenarios and

reduce costs for system test, QA and production deployments.

It reduces costs compared to buying WAS editions with the Full profile in
order to get the Liberty profile for system test, QA and production.

It includes a subset of the Liberty profile provided in other WAS

editions.

It includes all elements of the JEE standard Web Profile specification and
has been certified as compliant with the specification.

It provides a simplified and lightweight application server environment for

web, OSGi and mobile applications that do not need the complete JEE
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WAS V8.5.5 editions and their Liberty profile capabilities
WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core
Includes only a Liberty profile that provides JEE Web Profile capabilities
only.

WebSphere Application Server (Base)

Includes a Liberty profile with all capabilities of WAS Liberty Core product
plus support for JMS, Web Services, MongoDB.

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment

Includes a Liberty profile with all capabilities of the WAS Base Liberty
profile plus support for static clustering of WAS ND servers running the
Liberty profile.

WebSphere Application Server for z

Includes a Liberty profile with all the capabilities of the WAS ND Liberty
profile, plus additional exploitation of System z facilities and Qualities of
Service.

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 WebSphere Application Server editions
Positioning summary Consider
WAS for z
Systems of Record

Express Base ND
Web + JEE Apps

Full profile Full profile

WAS Base with Web, Java EE apps + High availability

capacity-limited license and extensions + Intelligent mgmt
Secure, high + High scalability
(480 PVUs per server) performance
transaction engine and more
Systems of Engagement
Simple Web Apps

Liberty Core Liberty profile Liberty profile

included w/ Base included w/ ND

Web, mobile, OSGi apps Everything in Liberty Core + Enterprise class

(Web Profile spec) + Java messaging clustering
Subset of Liberty profile + Web services + Topology management
+ NoSQL DB

Handful of servers Dozens of servers Hundreds of servers

Hundreds of concurrent users Thousands of concurrent users

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 WebSphere Application Server for Developers
It is downloadable from IBM developerWorks web site.
It is Free for use by developers on their desktops for unit testing.
Support is provided when customer has any WAS edition with current
S&S (Subscription and Support).
WebSphere eXtreme Scale (elastic caching) is also downloadable and
free for developer use.

Liberty Full
profile profile WAS for eXtreme Scale
Developers Liberty profile
Developer
Web Java EE +
Profile extended
programming
EJB Lite models WebSphere
Application Server
Developer Tools
for Eclipse

http://wasdev.net

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 Elastic caching entitlements with WAS
Some WAS editions include entitlement for WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
WAS ND V8.5.5 and later versions include full entitlement to WXS.
WAS Base V8.5.5 and later versions include entitlement to WXS for http
session management and WAS DynaCache replacement use cases
only.
This provides more flexibility for customers purchasing WXS.
When WXS is being installed on same production hardware as WAS
Base or WAS ND, there is no charge (no PVUs are needed).

Example: WXS deployment in a new data caching tier more PVUs are needed
Web Server Tier App Server Tier In Memory Data Grid Back-end Systems
Database Tier

WebSphere eXtreme Scale Entitlement by Edition Entitlement to WXS is needed for these servers.
WAS ND = Unlimited
WAS Base = HTTP Session and DynaCache
Customers can purchase WAS or WXS PVUs.
WAS
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WAS Express & WAS Liberty Core = Not Available
 How does WAS compare to the competition?

IBM middleware running on POWER 8 beats Oracle middleware

running on SPARC T5 Servers by 1.7x on a per core level.
Comparison is based on latest WebLogic v12.1.2 and WAS v8.5.5.2
SPECEnterprise 2010 results.
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 WAS Liberty profile application startup and footprint

DayTrader3 is an update of the

Apache DayTrader benchmark
for Java EE 6 using web and EJB
technologies, JPA and JMS.

Liberty profile starts DayTrader3

in half the time it takes JBoss,
and in one fifth the time it takes
Glassfish.

Note: Apache Tomcat is only a servlet

container and cannot run this workload
without the addition of additional
middleware
System Configuration:
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SUT: T60p ThinkPad Windows XP 32-bit
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU @ 2.16 GHz [2 cores] 2MB L2, 2GB RAM
IBM JDK 7 sr4fp1ifix-20130404 used with Liberty
Oracle JDK 7 su21 used for other products
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 Open source competitive positioning summary
Systems of Record

JBoss
Web + JEE Apps

Free WAS Migration

EAP
toolkit
Web, Java EE apps
and some extensions
Migrate from Oracle,
- Compares with WAS TomCat, JBoss
Base
- Higher TCO
Systems of Engagement
Simple Web Apps

Tomcat tc Server
Java Servlet, Java Server Based on Tomcat
pages container - User may add services
- User may add services Added features
to expand capabilities + Web Console
(ex. OpenJPA) + Spring support
+ VM and cloud ($)

Handful of servers Dozens of servers Hundreds of servers

Hundreds of concurrent users Thousands of concurrent users

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 WAS licensing options

PVU (Processor Value Unit) pricing

Fixed term licensing
Sub-capacity licensing
Per user Licensing
Socket pricing
Leverage sales pricing plays and special pricing deals:
Special bids
Enterprise License Agreement
IBM Unlimited License Agreement
Right Fit loyalty program

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 Pricing and packaging entry points:
Systems of Engagement / simpler web apps
Entry points: Simple web apps
WAS Edition Lead with WAS Liberty Core
Price $26 PVU
$649 per 20 user license
Value Liberty Core provides a lower cost
Proposition lightweight and dynamic application
server to rapidly build and deliver web
apps that do not require the full Java EE
stack.
Audience Software Developers
Key Strengths Dynamic server profile, start fast, web &
mobile support, high performance,
integrated tools, unzip install & deploy,
extensible, embeddable, with fidelity to
higher editions of WAS as needed
Deployment Complexity
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Web Apps requiring
Messaging, Web Services
and HTTP session
management (WXS)
Lead with WAS Base
(Liberty profile)
$52 PVU
$13,300 /socket
WAS Base provides an
advanced, flexible runtime
environment for applications
and services. It is designed
for medium-to-large
businesses and includes full
Java EE capabilities and
lightweight Liberty profile for
moderately scaled web
application deployments.
Software Developers, System
Administrators, IT Managers
Easy to use, high
performance, additional
programming model support,
security, IDE tooling
Web Apps requiring highest
scalability and centralized
admin
Lead with *WAS ND and Liberty
(Liberty ND components +
WXS)
If needed do a special bid for
discount off WAS ND
WAS ND and Liberty provides
centralized light weight admin for
large scale environments. It offers
enterprise scaling for web
applications and WebSphere
eXtreme Scale with distributed
cache and data grid capabilities
for modern applications.
IT Managers, CIO, CTO
Centralized light weight
management, clustering,
enterprise scaling elastic caching,
unlimited load balancing and
HTTP routing.
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 Pricing and packaging entry points:
Systems of Record / full Java EE apps
Entry points: Web and Java EE apps
WAS Edition Lead with WAS Base
Price $52 PVU
$13,300 /socket
Term based pricing (FTL Option)
Value Proposition: WAS Base provides an advanced,
flexible runtime environment for
applications and services. It is
designed for medium-to-large
businesses and includes full Java EE
capabilities and lightweight options for
moderately scaled web application
deployments.
Audience Software Developers, System
Administrators, IT Managers
Key Strengths: Resiliency, high performance,
additional programming model
support, administration, advanced
security, diagnostics, IDE tooling
Deployment Complexity
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Core business apps requiring
highest availability and
transactional integrity
Lead with WAS ND
$196 PVU Also consider WAS for z
and WAS for Linux on z
WAS ND provides an advanced,
flexible runtime environment for
transaction intensive deployments. It
offers enterprise scaling and near-
continuous availability for business
critical applications.
IT Managers, CIO, CTO
Highly secure and resilient server
with centralized config &
management, clustering, enterprise
scaling, intelligent management,
elastic caching, advanced
programming model support,
unlimited load balancing and HTTP
routing.
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 WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 benefits
To address these challenges:
Economic budget constraints
Delivering web apps for mobile
devices with limited development skills
Lowering operational costs and
reduce complexity
Reducing encountered errors when
moving code through from unit to
system test, QA and then into
production
Lack of top developer skills
Constant change reducing
development and project delivery
timelines
Overcoming competitive threats by
leveraging cloud, expert integrated
systems and new technologies
Whitepaper: Total Economic Impact
WAS Migrating From An Open
Source Environment
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WAS provides these benefits:
It is the best performing, lowest TCO
platform to run mission critical applications.
It provides full code fidelity when moving
from lowest cost to highest performing WAS.
Clients can start small and easily move up
without migration issues.
It provides a competitive edge by helping
customers bring new IT services and
business applications to market faster,
using features such as the Web 2.0 and
Mobile Toolkit, CEA, etc.
It enables right sizing to customer needs.
It provides the ability to meet on demand
business growth.
It improves business flexibility by making
application services more reusable and
accessible for users in new ways.
It is free for developers to use for unit
testing.
The Migration Toolkit helps when moving from
competitive app servers or older WAS
versions to current versions.
It is a key technology in IBM cloud, mobile and
expert integrated system platforms.
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 WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 value propositions

It provides the Lowest TCO compared to open source and other competitors.
Customers can use just the right WAS at lowest cost with full fidelity
assured throughout the WAS family including the highest performance
offerings of WAS Network Deployment and WAS for z.
Customers have entitlement to WebSphere eXtreme Scale with some WAS
editions. WXS improves performance and scalability, reduces response time,
and prevents lost http sessions (i.e. shopping carts).
Free WAS and tools are available for developer desktops, as well as a free
application migration utility.
Liberty delivers faster testing and easy deployment of web apps. It restarts
in less than 3 seconds (faster than JBoss), which is important for developer test
environments.
WAS 8.5.5 provides significant performance benefits over previous releases
and over all of our competitors.
It supports innovations including mobile enablement of web apps and support
for Communications Enabled Applications, thereby enabling delivery of LOB
solutions with less developer skills.
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 Learning points
WAS is Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) standards-based. It integrates data and applications, and
provides a Java runtime environment. Business pressures on IT today that lead to needing WAS
include: delivering new applications quickly, reducing costs, and enabling web applications for mobile.

WAS offers the highest performing, lowest Total Cost of Ownership platform to run mission critical
applications. WAS includes the Web 2.0 and Mobile toolkit. It also supports Communications Enabled
Applications in the full profile (traditional) WAS.

WAS, WAS Express, WAS Network Deployment (WAS ND) and WAS for z include the full & Liberty
profiles. Some WAS 8.5.5 editions include entitlements for elastic caching.

WAS 8.5+ Liberty profile provides very fast install, small footprint and quick start/stop times. It is
designed for developers building web and mobile apps that dont need full JEE support. Liberty profile
can also be used at runtime but in a system test, QA or production environment WAS, WAS
Express, WAS ND or WAS for z licenses must be purchased (giving customers the ability to use
either the Full or Liberty profile). There is full fidelity from smallest to largest WAS edition, and one can
develop on Liberty and then deploy using Liberty or full profile WAS.

A new WAS product edition, WAS Liberty Core, provides a subset of the Liberty profile to support
JEE web profile specification capabilities only. The WAS full profile is NOT included. It installs
quickly, has a small footprint and quick start/stop times. WAS Liberty Core is a lower cost way to get
system test, QA and/or production runtimes for simple web and mobile apps.

Open source competitors include JBoss, Tomcat and Pivotal tc Server. Oracle is also a
competitor, especially on the high end. WAS Liberty starts in half the time of JBoss (great for developer
testing).

WAS is free for developers to use for unit testing on their desktops. Developers get a subset of
RAD the WAS Developer Tools for Eclipse that supports web and mobile development along with
the ability to use WAS Full profile and/or WAS Liberty profile for unit testing. They can also download
and use elastic caching (WebSphere eXtreme Scale) for free to test their applications. It is very easy to
use the Liberty profile with elastic caching in the development environment.
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 Where can I get more information?
WAS Liberty Video - Built for Cloud & Open Architectures

WAS 8.5.5 Video

IBM Internal Sales Kit

Business Partner Sales Kit

Communications Enabled Applications (Telephony) videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsQLmG-TVlw&feature=channel
Contact Center Co-Browsing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9822FDdb8Gk
Peer to Peer Co-Browsing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLy07-ogWCo

IBM developerWorks download site for WAS profiles (Liberty or full) so developers can
unit test application code on their desktop
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/wasdevelopers/

FREE WAS Migration toolkit - migrates from Oracle, TomCat, JBoss and also
older WAS licenses to new WAS Versions:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/downloads/migration_toolkit.html
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 Where can I get more information? (contd)

Social Media:

WhyWebSphere.com Blog by Roman Kharkovski

WAS TCO whitepapers:

WAS v8.5 vs. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform V6 -- TCO Analysis

WAS v8.5 vs. VMware vFabric tc Server v2.8 -- Technical and TCO Analysis

Total Economic Impact WAS Migrating From An Open SourceEnvironment

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