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This article is about the product range. For the main product in the range, see IBM WebSphere Application Server.
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IBM WebSphere refers to a brand of computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create applications and integrate applications with other applications. IBM WebSphere has been available to the general market since 1998.

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[edit] History

IBM introduced the first product in this brand, IBM WebSphere Performance Pack, in June 1998.[1] As of 2010 it forms a part of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network D

[edit] IBM WebSphere software

See also: List of IBM products

The following complete list of IBM WebSphere software uses IBM classifications.[2] Several tools appear in more than one category.

IBM has also classifed WebSphere software according to the capabilities offered for individual industries.[3]

[edit] Application Servers

[edit] Distributed Application & Web Servers

Application integration, data access and integration, business processing and distributed transaction monitoring:

[edit] In Memory DataGrid or distributed cache

Partitioned, replicated and elastic storage of data in a grid of machines. Can also be used for distributed caching integration

[edit] Other Application Servers

Other platforms on which to run inter-operable applications:

[edit] Business Integration

[edit] Application Integration and Connectivity

Application Integration and Connectivity middleware reduces the complexity of connecting applications to applications.

[edit] Process integration

Runtime and infrastructure for real-time application integration, event-driven processing and process automation.

[edit] Commerce

[edit] Web commerce

Platform framework for e-commerce, including marketing, sales, customer and order processing functionality in a tailorable, integrated package.

[edit] Mobile, Speech and Enterprise Access

[edit] Device Software

Device software consists of client-sMicro Environment - this support many platforms, for instance, see their WEME 6.1.1 evaluation platforms.

[edit] Mobile and Enterprise Access

  • Everyplace Access
  • Everyplace Deployment, which has evolved into IBM Lotus Expeditor
  • Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable

[edit] Speech

Delivers Business-to-employee (B2E) and Business-to-consumer (B2C) services, including voice recognition and telephony speech processing:

WebSphere

  • Everyplace Subscription Manager
  • Voice Response for AIX
  • Voice Server

[edit] Translation

Translation applications convert languages automatically and assist humans performing internationalization tasks.

  • Translation Server, for Multiplatforms

[edit] Other Mobile, Speech and Enterprise Access

[edit] Networking

[edit] Host Access

Provides multi-protocol transparency and control and connectivity (protocol stacks and terminal emulation) to host applications.

  • WebFacing Deployment Tool with HATS Technology
  • WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services
  • WebSphere Host Integration Solution
  • WebSphere Host On-Demand

[edit] Organizational productivity, portals and collaboration

[edit] Portals

Portals provide personalized access to a variety of applications and aggregate disparate content sources and services. Portals allow people to customize their user experience, with personalized applications based on role, context, actions, location, preferences and team-collaboration needs. There are many other things that can be brought[by whom?] into a portal site.

[edit] Software Development

[edit] Integrated Development Environment

Application development tools for Websphere

[edit] Analysis modeling and design

Assists in creating resilient architectures for service-oriented architecture (SOA), programming specifications, business processes and rules.

  • Branch Transformation Toolkit for WebSphere Studio
  • WebFacing Deployment Tool with HATS Technology
  • WebSphere Developer
  • WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition for iSeries
  • WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer
  • WebSphere Studio Device Developer

[edit] Problem-determination tools

Problem-determination and -debugging tools:

  • Application Performance Analyzer for System z
  • Debugger Tool for System z
  • File Manager for System z
  • Fault Analyzer for System z
  • Optim Move for DB2
  • Workload Simulator for OS/390 and System z

[edit] Process and portfolio management

Implements and manages enterprise processes and investments:

  • IBM Asset Transformation Workbench
  • IBM Workbench

[edit] Software quality management

Tools that address all dimensions of software quality: functionality, reliability and performance:

  • Studio Workload Simulator for z/OS and OS/390

[edit] Traditional programming-languages and compilers

3GL and 4GL/RAD language-based tools and unified development environments.

[edit] Systems management

[edit] Application performance and availability

Define, measure, and manage to committed service-levels across complex heterogeneous environments with central control.

  • Studio Application Monitor

[edit] Enterprise content management

  • Information Integrator, Content Edition (IICE)
  • IBM WebSphere Information Integration

[edit] See also

Portal icon Java portal

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ IBM Introduces WebSphere Performance Pack
  2. ^ IBM WebSphere software - Products by category
  3. ^ IBM WebSphere industry solutions
  4. ^ WebSphere Portal belongs to the IBM Lotus products but to the WebSphere brand [1]

[edit] Further reading

  • Budinsky, F.; G. DeCandio, R. Earle, T. Francis, J. Jones, J. Li, M. Nally, C. Nelin, V. Popescu, S. Rich, A. Ryman, T. Wilson (2004). "WebSphere Studio overview". IBM Systems Journal 43 (2): 384–419. doi:10.1147/sj.432.0384. ISSN 0018-8670. 

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