WebSphere is IBM's suite of software offerings, including WebSphere application servers, WebSphere Studio, and WebSphere performance packs. There will be other products added to the Order to supplement and expand. He is IBM network infrastructure software, is the development and integration of E-COMMERCE applications of intermediary software, from simple Web pages to complex business transactions, it can be fully supported.
WebSphere can operate on 35 operating system platforms, in addition to computers, can also be used for PDA, information appliances and other products, cross-platform ability.
WebSphere currently employs more than 35,000 companies worldwide and has grown by more than two digits for 9 consecutive quarters. 1999, the Application server (application Server) market share of IBM 14%, and 2000 this number has risen to 30%, in the market has been sitting two. In the near future, IBM's push middleware (middleware) platform WebSphere will launch version 4.0, which is expected to further increase IBM's share of the application server market, posing a threat to market leader Bea Systems. WebSphere is currently ranked second in global application server products, after BEA Systems's WebLogic, but has ranked first in the Asia Pacific region. IBM and WebSphere Information intermediary software MQSeries has a market share of up to 75% in the world.
The WebSphere Application Server enables you to implement the purpose of "write, use everywhere" for the development of the servlet. The product includes a java-based Servlet engine, independent of the WEB server and the operating system on which it is based. The WebSphere Application Server provides options for server plug-ins that are compatible with most popular application design interfaces (APIs). The supported WEB servers are:
• IBM HTTP Server
L Apache Server
L Domino
L Lotus Domino Go Webserver
• Netscape Enterprise Server
• Netscape FastTrack Server
L Microsoft Internet Information Server
In addition to the Servlet engine and plug-in, the WebSphere Application Server provides:
1. JavaSoft Java Servlet API implementations, and extensions and additions to these APIs.
2. Examples and documentation, sample Servlet and Web site applications demonstrate simple and advanced techniques. Online and printable documents for you to get started quickly, and to help master server advanced features using demo basic classes and their extended sample applications.
3. The manager of the WebSphere application server, using a graphical interface, is easy to:
(1) Set options for mounting the local and remote Servlet
(2) Set initialization parameters
(3) Managing the Servlet
(4) Specify a Servlet alias
(5) Create a Servlet chain and filter
(6) Enable Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory support
(7) Record Servlet messages
(8) Enable JVM debugging
(9) Monitor the resources used by the WebSphere application server
(10) Monitor mounted servlet, active servlet session, and JDBC connection
(11) Control errors, events, anomalies, and log output
(12) Create dumps and data snapshots
(13) Dynamically enable and disable tracing