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WebSphere Administration Guide

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IBM WebSphere® Application
Server Network Deployment 8.5.5

Introduction

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Table of Contents
What is Java Application Server? .................................................................. 3
Supported Platforms ...................................................................................................................................... 3
WebSphere Editions ......................................................................................... 4
WebSphere Topologies .................................................................................... 4
Standalone topology ...................................................................................................................................... 5
Network Deployment topology .................................................................................................................. 6
Administrative Agent topology .................................................................................................................. 7
What’s new? ...................................................................................................... 8

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What is Java Application Server?

Application Server provides the entire necessary infrastructure to host

enterprise application. It handles application operation between user request
to backend business application like database, messaging, etc. Enterprise
application, which is usually transactional based or heavily used, must have
application server with built-in redundancy, high availability and performance
oriented like WebSphere Application Server.

Application Server usually sits between Web Server and Database or other
backend like messaging, etc. Below is the typical diagram indicates
application server location in the user requests.

Supported Platforms

WebSphere Application Server is supported on following platforms.

 AIX
 HP
 IBM i

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  z/OS
 Linux
 Solaris
 Windows

Alternatively, you may click here to go through official System Requirements

document for WAS 8.5.5.

WebSphere Editions

There are seven WAS editions as following at the moment in the market.

1. WebSphere Application Server – Liberty Core

2. WebSphere Application Server – Express
3. WebSphere Application Server – Base
4. WebSphere Application Server – Network Deployment
5. WebSphere Application Server – Hypervisor Edition
6. WebSphere Application Server – z/OS
7. WebSphere Application - Developers

Each edition is optimized for various requirements from development to

production and small to enterprise business. You can compare them to
choose the best suited for your business.

Click here to go through official WAS comparing sheet.

WebSphere Topologies

WebSphere provides configuration flexibility that can fit in any requirement in

production or non-production environment within budget. Considering vast
options, there could be various topologies however; following three are most
widely used.

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 1. Standalone
2. Network Deployment
3. Administrative Agent

Standalone topology

It’s basic topology where you install WebSphere on single server. By

implementing this, you will have Cell, Node, and Server (JVM) in a single
machine, which has some of the following limitations.

 Won’t be able to start server from admin console

 No high availability
 No load balancing
 All administrative tasks by connecting to JVM

Probably this would be good for development or no critical non-production

environment. Below is the typical server diagram for standalone topology.

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Network Deployment topology

Probably the most used and advanced topology, which can have multiple JVM
running on the same server or different server. This is supported only with
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment edition. Good thing
about this topology is you can have all administrative tasks done including
starting the JVM through DMGR console.

In this topology – DMGR and Node agent run as separate process and it
support clustering for high-availability. Below is basic diagram for ND
topology.

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Administrative Agent topology

In this topology, additional process called administrative agent is created

which helps to manage multiple standalone servers registered to
administrative agent. This allow administrator to manage all registered nodes
using administrative agent console. This becomes very useful when you have
multiple standalone servers and you wish to perform administrative tasks
including starting JVM through console. Below diagram illustrates a basic
administrative agent topology.

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What’s new?

IBM released WebSphere Application Server 8.5 in June 2012 and 8.5.5 in
June 2013 with some of the great features listed below.

 HPEL – Binary logging which is faster than text logging. This helps in
runtime performance.
 Monitored directory support for faster edit-deploy-test cycles
 JAVA SE7 – WAS 8.5 have an option to support Java 7 SE

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  Application Resiliency – WAS 8.5 ND is integrated with WebSphere
virtual enterprise.
 Health Management – Monitor the application server health and
respond to the potential issues before outage occurs.
 SIP – Serviceability and troubleshooting enhancements to Session
Initiation Protocol support more resilient processing of SIP sessions.
For the complete list of new features – click here to refer official document.