WebSphere Application Server

Accelerate delivery of innovative applications with unmatched operational efficiency, reliability, security, and control.

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Overview

WebSphere Application Server delivers a faster, more flexible development environment along with intelligent management capabilities for enhanced resiliency

A scalable application foundation that can go from single server to moderately sized departmental configurations to large-scale, dynamic web applications requiring web tier clustering and fail over across multiple application server instances

Optimize developer productivity and web application deployment with the new Liberty Profile option, an ultra lightweight, fast starting, highly composable application server profile.
Improve productivity and resiliency while gaining interruption free rollout without incurring outages to your end users with Application Edition Management.
Realize higher application availability to end users with new Application Health Management that monitors the status of your application servers and senses and responds to problem areas before end users suffer and outage.
Improve business results by ensuring priority is given to business critical applications with new Intelligent Routing features that prioritizes and routes requests based upon administrator defined rules.
Handle spikes in demand and dynamically provision and start and stop new instance of application server Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) based on workload demands.
Gain higher quality of service by leveraging a common Java infrastructure for OLTP and batch applications with new Enterprise Batch Workload support that can be executed across multiple Java EE environments.
Developer tool options to match project development needs, support for Java 7,and OSGi, enhanced Migration Toolkit support, Support for the Web 2.0 and Mobile Toolkit.

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