Developing applications in the Liberty environment
WebSphere® Application Server Liberty is a lightweight, composable application server that provides a convenient application development environment for your web and OSGi applications. Applications that run on Liberty also run on the WebSphere Application Server traditional server.
About this task
- Frictionless download, at no cost, for development purposes
- Ultra lightweight modular runtime environment, with an install size of under 50 MB
- Very fast startup time; for example, less than 5 seconds for simple web applications
- Simplified configuration for quick time to productivity
- Java™ EE and OSGi application deployment support for web applications
- LDAP registry support
- Deployment, as a package, of an application and configured server
- Managed, centralized deployment of a packaged application and server
- Availability of WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools as Eclipse plug-ins for broad tools support
- Platform support for distributed platforms, z/OS®, and macOS