Ian Robinson, WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect

WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Overview

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Agenda

Introduction

What’s new in WebSphere Application Server v8.5.5

– Developer Experience

– Operational Excellence

– Ongoing innovation

Conclusions

Ongoing

Innovation

• Exploits mobile and telephony to reach new clients

and markets

• Develop, test and run on one application platform

• Public and Private cloud enablement

• Optimized data access (SQL and NoSQL)

Fast, flexible,

and simplified

development

• Choice of server runtimes from lightweight and flexible

to highly robust and resilient

• Broad programming model support

• JEE6 Standards based Java runtime environment

• Enhanced developer tools and no-charge dev desktops

WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Application Server runs the business - - including web,

mobile, telephony support, and more … from small businesses to

the largest in the world

Operational

Excellence

• Secure, scalable, highly available runtime

• Intelligent Management capabilities for resiliency

• Linear scalability through in memory data grid

• Runs on all major platforms

• High performance and near-continuous availability

WAS for Developers

WAS ND WAS for z/OS WAS Hypervisor Edition

Enables efficient development of innovative apps that will run on WAS in production Available as a no-charge edition for the developer desktop and includes Eclipse adapters

The WAS ND server optimized to instantly run in Pure Application System, VMware, PowerVM, zVM and other server virtualization environments.

Delivers near-continuous availability, with advanced performance and intelligent management capabilities, for mission-critical apps.

Takes full advantage of the z/OS Sysplex to deliver a highly secure, reliable, and resource efficient server experience.

WAS Provides secure, high performance transaction engine for moderately sized configurations with web tier clustering and failover across application server profiles.

Tools

Edition

Intelligent

Mgmt +WXS

Intelligent

Mgmt

Intelligent

Mgmt

Tools

Edition

Liberty

and Full

Profiles

+WXS

Tools

Edition +WXS

+WXS

Client

A lightweight and low-cost Liberty based

offering (not full-profile WAS), providing

the capabilities to rapidly build and deliver

web applications.

A low-cost, ready-to-go solution to build dynamic Web sites & apps, including both Liberty and full-profile WAS. Restricted to a set amount of PVUs.

WAS Express Liberty

and Full

Profiles

WAS v8.5.5 Family

Liberty Profile

(Web Profile only)

WAS Liberty Core

A lightweight and low-cost Liberty profile based

offering (not full-profile WAS), providing the

capabilities to rapidly build and deliver web apps

that do not require the full Java EE stack.

New WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core edition Entitlement to WebSphere eXtreme Scale (WXS) for some editions Developer install/support for WAS & WDT with active production server S&S

Provide WAS and WDT editions as freely available for dev desktops and supported under production runtime licenses

+WXS

Full entitlement to WXS. Entitlement to WXS z/OS client.

Includes entitlement to eXtreme Scale for HTTP session caching and DynaCache on the entitled WebSphere Application Server.

Liberty

and Full

Profiles

Liberty

and Full

Profiles

Liberty

and Full

Profiles

Liberty

and Full

Profiles

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WAS v8.5 GA • Lightweight Liberty profile with

z/OS extensions • Intelligent Management &

resiliency (WVE, WCG merged) • WOLA enhancements for z/OS • Java SE 7 • WAS 8.5 HV for PureApp

J2EE1.4

WAS v7 GA

JEE5

WAS v8 GA •Web 2.0 & Mobile FEP •WAS v8.5 Alpha, Beta •Migration Toolkit Refresh •WAS Tools Bundles

WAS v8.5.5 GA • Liberty Profile

• New prog models • Web Profile Certification • Clustering & resiliency • Extensibility SPI to add

Liberty Features • WAS Liberty Core • Service Mapping

JEE6

WAS v6.1 GA

2006 2007 2008 2010 2012 2011 2013 2009 2014

WebSphere Application Server

15 years of Leadership & Trusted Delivery

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WAS is the Java Foundation for IBM Software

Over 300 IBM offerings embed

or build upon WAS

WAS v8.5.5 Delivers

Fit for Purpose Servers enabling unmatched combination of Application Server runtime

and development experience, from the highly resilient to the lightweight and nimble

Improved Operations, Security, Control & Integration

Operational Excellence Developer Experience

Fast, flexible, and simplified application development

Intelligent Management and Enhanced Resiliency

Application Resiliency

Liberty profile Security enhancements Problem determination Monitoring

Service Mapping SIP improvements

Improved Load Balancer for

IPV4 and IPV6 Liberty profile packaging and

install enhancements WebSphere Extreme Scale

integration Performance enhancements

Lightweight Liberty Profile in all WAS Editions (since V8.5)

New WAS Liberty Core edition

Liberty Profile

Java EE 6 Web Profile EJB Lite, CDI, Managed Beans

Web Services JMS, MDB NoSQL DB (MongoDB Client) Support for WebSphere Web

Cache (DynaCache) Add custom and third party

Liberty features Asynchronous work management

Enhanced developer tools

Supported WAS and WDT on developer desktops

Enterprise Java Batch

WAS ND and WAS z/OS Intelligent Management (since v8.5) App Edition Mgmt App Server Health Mgmt Dynamic Clustering Intelligent Routing Messaging resiliency Memory leak protection

Liberty Profile collective

administration Liberty Profile clustering

Intelligent management in

WebSphere web server

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WAS v8.5.5 Liberty Profile

WAS v8.5.5 Liberty

Profile &

WAS Developer

Tools for Eclipse

(WDT)

Unzip install and deploy IM or unzip to install. New option to

deploy “server package” of app + config + required subset of server runtime for highest density deploy

Liberty Extensions Add custom features and

integrate 3rd party components via Liberty

extensions interface

Fidelity to full profile WAS Same reliable containers & QOS.

Develop on Liberty profile and deploy to Liberty or full-profile WAS

Integrated tools Powerful tools in WDT Eclipse

feature. Enhanced for v8.5.5 prog models, Maven integration, ++

Lightweight cluster Mgmt Liberty servers can join a

lightweight cluster for workload balancing and high availability

Dynamic Server Profile Not static like Web Profile; configured

by app at a fine-grained level

Start fast, run efficiently Starts in <3s; Mem footprint

<50MB; (TradeLite benchmark)

Dynamically Extensible Install new features from repository (local or remote) with no svr restart

“Developer First” Focus Simplified, shareable XML server config. New

integrated messaging server, DynaCache support, new prog. models, such as Web Services, JMS & EJB-Lite.

Small Download 50MB for Web Profile features

WAS v8.5.5 delivers significant enhancements to Liberty profile, including new

programming models, administration, qualities of service and development tools

Web Profile Certified Create web apps for the Java

EE Web Profile standard.

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Simplified Server Configuration

Any of this configuration could be put into a

separate xml file and 'included' in this

'master' configuration file

'instance' configurations specify

multiple resources like applications

and datasource definitions

Features control which capabilities

(bundles) are installed in the server

'singleton' configurations specify

properties for a runtime service like

logging

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Application Manager HTTP Transport Feature Manager

jpa servlet

jsp

jsf

jndi jdbc

sessionDatabase monitor

wab

blueprint

jaxrs

json

ssl restConnector

localConnector osgi.jpa

appSecurity zosSecurity beanvalidation

zosWlm zosTransaction

Full WAS Profile

WAS Extensions

Java EE Support

Runtime Services

&

Config Model

WAS v8.5 Liberty Profile (V8.5.0)

Highly Composable Runtime Based on „Features‟

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Application Manager HTTP Transport Feature Manager

jpa servlet

jsp

jsf

jndi jdbc

sessionDatabase monitor

wab

blueprint

jaxrs

json

restConnector

osgi.jpa

appSecurity

WAS v8.5 Liberty Profile (V8.5.5 )

Liberty feature set

ssl

localConnector beanvalidation

ejblite cdi managedBeans

oauth collectiveMember ldapRegistry webCache

wasJmsClient wasJmsServer

wasJmsSecurity jmsMdb

Liberty Core

Base, Express

ND

z/OS

jaxws

clusterMember

concurrent

wmqJmsClient wsSecurity

mongodb jaxb

collectiveController zosSecurity zosTransaction

zosWlm

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Elastic Caching for WAS V8.5.5

• Customers can now develop with caching in mind

• Benefits for developers – free access to caching for unit testing on

developer’s desktop

• Benefits for business – improvements to performance at lower cost

• Ability to enhance customer experience for web sites which can also

improve revenue

Web Server Tier Back-end Systems

Database Tier

App Server Tier Data Cache (WXS)

WebSphere eXtreme Scale entitlement with WAS

WAS Network Deployment includes full entitlement to eXtreme Scale

WAS includes entitlement to use eXtreme Scale for Session Management

and distributing the WAS DynaCache service

Local server cache for dynamic web content

Enables developers to easily develop / test applications for local server caching solutions

Same API as full WAS

Optional disk offload

LRU replacement policy

Run as local server cache in production or move applications unchanged to distributed caching via WebSphere eXtreme Scale

Web Cache Example

WAS v8.5.5 provides support for WebSphere Web Cache, a.k.a. DynaCache, enabling a

local caching service for simplified development of applications

webCache

Servlet/JSP/ application

DistributedMap API

In-process web cache (dynacache)

Disk offload

cachespec xml

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WebSphere Extreme Scale for Distributed Web Caching

Massive data volume with

linear scalability

Elasticity: add more

instances dynamically and

runtime redistributes data

automatically.

Cache consistency

Configurable number of

replicas: balance between

read and write operations. – No need to store cache at

every application server.

…

Catalog

Server

WXS

Caching

Tier

Grid

Container

Grid

Container

Grid

Container

Grid

Container

Grid

Container

Grid

Container

Use WebSphere Extreme Scale for greater data elasticity and higher caching qualities of

service

Servlet/JSP/ application

DistributedMap API

WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client

cachespec xml

Servlet/JSP/ application

DistributedMap API

WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client

cachespec xml

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Mobile with WebSphere Application Server & Elastic Cache

DMZ Back-end Tier

App Server Tier Elastic Cache

IBM HTTP

Server

WAS Liberty or WAS full profile cluster

Mobile Transactions

DataPower XC10 for simple data oriented scenarios: • HTTP Session Replication • Elastic Dynacache • Web Side Cache

eXtreme Scale for maximum flexibility covering data and application oriented scenarios

Operational Excellence

Single Sign on

WebSphere Application Servers provide high availability, high quality of service and superior performance for all your mobile application needs!

An Online Repository for Extending the Liberty Profile Runtime

An online repository to deliver Liberty

platform extensions

Content includes:

Open source project integration

Individual Liberty features

Samples

Enables more fine-grained, early access

content, simplest possible integration

with external open source

Install using Liberty command-line tools or

WDT/RAD

On www.wasdev.net

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WAS ND V8.5.x: Resiliency enhancements – WebSphere Virtual Enterprise & Intelligent Management

Operations Optimization

Compute Grid Data Grid

WebSphere Virtual Enterprise

WebSphere Compute Grid

WebSphere eXtreme Scale

Intelligent Management Pack

Dynamic Operations Extreme Computing

Extended Manageability

WebSphere Virtual Enterprise

WAS Network Deployment V8.5 & WAS Hypervisor Edition V8.5

All WAS V8.5 Editions

Entitled with WAS V8.5.5

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Up to 90% fewer outages

Intelligent Routing and SLA

Enforcement

WAS - Intelligent Management

Application Edition

Management

Up to 45% less hardware

Source: Based on 60+ WebsSphere Virtual Enterprise Value Assessments done to date by IBM for real customers

Server Health Management

SLA based Dynamic

Clustering

Up to 60% less administration

Up to 45% less software

StockTrading 1.0

StockTrading 2.0

StockTrading 3.0

Costs

(Part of WAS ND and WAS for z)

Application Edition Management Seamless upgrades from one version to the next…

What is Application Edition Management?

− Seamless upgrades without interruption

− Deploy new applications easily

− Test specific version with a select group of

users

Benefits

− Easy validation of new versions

− Supports “rolling” upgrades

− More agile and flexible deployments

− Concurrent activation

− Upgrade applications without incurring outages

Keeping critical business apps up and

running

Health Management – Preventive Action Avoids Outages Sense and respond to problems before end users suffer an outage

Proactively deal with application issues

before they become acute problems …

automatically

Administrative policies for health conditions

and associated corrective actions

− Examples: Memory leaks, slow response

times etc…

Provides insight!

Results In:

−Better availability

−Less administration

−Satisfied end users

Health Management – Health Policies

Health policies can be defined for

common server health conditions

Health Policy: If (Condition) then (Action) e.g:

• Notify administrator (send email or

SNMP trap)

• Capture diagnostics (generate heap

dump, java core)

• Restart server

Custom health actions are commands or scripts

Excessive response time means you are monitoring what matters most: your customer's experience!

Each health policy can be in supervise or automatic mode. Supervise mode is like training wheels to allow you to verify that a health policy does what you want

before making it automatic.

Helps mitigate common health problems before outages occur

Health Conditions

• Excessive request timeouts: % of timed out requests

• Excessive response time: average response time

• Excessive garbage collection: % of time spent in GCs

• Excessive memory: % of maximum JVM heap size

• Age-based: amount of time server has been running

• Memory leak: JVM heap size after garbage collection

• Storm drain: significant drop in response time

• Workload: total number of requests

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Associate service policies with your applications

•Let WebSphere manage to the service goals

Optional: programmatically respond to spikes in demand

•Add or reduce application server instances as appropriate

Pool middleware resources for higher utilization

Decrease administrative overhead required to monitor and diagnose

performance issues

(Since V8.5.5) Web server plugin as alternative to Java ODR.

Dynamic Clustering

Proactively provision and start or stop application servers based

on workload demands to meet Service Level Agreements

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Application

Placement

and request

routing

Intelligent Management

services

100%

0%

50%

100%

0%

50%

100%

0%

50%

20% Utilized Servers

Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3

55% Utilized Servers 75% Utilized Servers

Claims Processing Account Management Billing Application

Gold Silver

15% Utilized Servers 10% Utilized Servers

Unplanned peak workload for one business application

Claims Duration: 15% over target

Customer Complaints: 25% over target

CSR Efficiency: 30% below target

Bronze

Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 100%

0%

50%

55%* Utilized Servers

One Resource Pool

Pooled Application Server deployment with dynamic workload management

Claims Processing Account Management Billing Application Gold Silver Bronze

Customer Support Gold Underwriting Silver

Choice of Patterns and deployment models

Software application

Virtual Appliance

Metadata

Software application

Operating system

Virtual Appliance

Virtual Appliance

Metadata

Application Server

Operating system

Virtual Appliance

Metadata

Application Server

Operating system

Virtual Appliance

Metadata

HTTP Server

Operating system

Pure Application System

Bring your own Virtualized environments

Virtual Appliances (simple HV image)

Virtual System Patterns (Patterns based on HV images)

Virtual Application Patterns

Choice Of Patterns

Choice Of Deployment

IBM Smart Cloud

Cloud Delivery Models

Custom Applications

Packaged Applications

ISV Applications

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Integration by Design Deeply integrating and tuning hardware and software – in a ready-to-go workload optimized system

Built-in Expertise Capturing and automating

what experts do – from the infrastructure patterns to

the application patterns

Simplified Experience

Making every part of the IT lifecycle easier - with integrated management of the entire system and a broad

open ecosystem of optimized solutions

Innovative systems with integrated expertise and built for cloud

Over $2B in R&D and acquisitions over 3 years

Millions of development hours across 37 labs in 17

countries

WebSphere release-to-release performance increases E

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S/c

ore

As per SPEC Published Data as of 4/26/2013: http://www.spec.org/jEnterprise2010/results/jEnterprise2010.html

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IBM is World Leader in Enterprise Performance

IBM Middleware running on Power 7 beats Oracle Middleware running on SPARC T5 Servers by almost 2x on a per core level

Comparison is based on latest WL 12.1.1 and WAS 8.5.5 SPECj Results

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Liberty Startup and Footprint (TradeLite)

WAS 8.5.5 Liberty Server

startup and memory footprint

is comparable to or faster

than other lightweight App

Servers

TradeLite is a very simple

benchmark…as the

workload gets more complex

the advantages with Liberty

increase further…

System Configuration:

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SUT: T60p Thinkpad Windows XP 32-bit Intel Core

2 Duo CPU @ 2.16 GHz [2 cores] 2MB L2, 2GB RAM

IBM JDK 7 sr4fp1ifix-20130404 used with Liberty

Oracle JDK 7 su21 used for other products

2.1

4.8

7.8

2.6

Tomcat 7.0.39 JBoss 7.1.1 Glassfish 3.1 WAS 8.5.5 Liberty

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

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Startup Time Comparison of Lightweight Servers (TradeLite)

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94 105

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Tomcat 7.0.39 JBoss 7.1.1 Glassfish 3.1 WAS 8.5.5Liberty

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

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Memory Footprint Comparison of Lightweight Servers (TradeLite)

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Liberty Startup and Footprint (DayTrader3)

DayTrader3 is an update of

the Apache DayTrader

benchmark for Java EE 6

using Web and EJB

technologies, JPA and JMS.

Liberty starts in half the time

of JBoss and Glassfish is

way behind.

Note: Note that Tomcat was excluded

from this comparison because it does not

have J2EE features needed to run the

DayTrader3 application.

System Configuration:

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SUT: T60p Thinkpad Windows XP 32-bit Intel Core

2 Duo CPU @ 2.16 GHz [2 cores] 2MB L2, 2GB RAM

IBM JDK 7 sr4fp1ifix-20130404 used with Liberty

Oracle JDK 7 su21 used for other products

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11.4

5.5

Glassfish 3.1 JBoss 7.1.1 WAS 8.5.5 Liberty

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10

15

20

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Startup Time Comparison of Lightweight Servers (DayTrader3)

207

142

91

Glassfish 3.1 JBoss 7.1.1 WAS 8.5.5 Liberty

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250

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Memory Footprint Comparison of Lightweight Servers (DayTrader3)

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Runtime Performance Comparison

Its not just about

development environments

– in production, WAS

V8.5.5 Liberty outperforms

the other servers too.

System Configuration:

-------------------------------

SUT: Intel Westmere with 4 cores enabled, Linux 64-bit

IBM JDK 7 sr4 used with Liberty

Oracle JDK 7 su17 used for other products

4565

3081

4753

Glassfish 3.1 JBoss 7.1.1 WAS 8.5.5 Liberty

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

4500

5000

Req

ue

sts

/Se

co

nd

Throughput Comparison of Lightweight Servers (DayTrader3)

4908

7244

Tomcat 7.0.39 WAS 8.5.5 Liberty

0

1000

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3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

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qu

ests

/Se

co

nd

Throughput Comparison of Lightweight Servers (TradeLite)

Note: Tomcat is compared using

TradeLite since it does not provide

the features to run the DayTrader3

workload.

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IBM named a leader in the Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application Platforms. IBM also positioned the furthest for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

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Magic Quadrant for On-Premises

Application Platforms

Daniel Sholler, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo

Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Jess

Thompson, Ross Altman

June 27, 2013

This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc.

as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in

the context of the entire report. The full report is available at

ibm.co/18bquRz

“New and composite on-

premises applications need

a complex array of runtime

technologies and

development capabilities.”

Source: Gartner (June 2013)

Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application Platforms

Developers – Lightweight developer friendly tools

– Fast and free download of WAS

runtime for testing on developer’s

desktop along with developer’s tools

– Simple configuration and rapid

server restart for testing

WebSphere Application Server v8.5+

Lightweight profile for fast development and non-critical apps. Resiliency and

scaling when your apps need it !

Business value delivered with “fit for purpose” application servers, flexible

and extensible platforms, leading edge features & developer focus

Enterprises – “Fit for purpose” application servers

− Develop, test, and run on one

common application platform

− Highly resilient application

environments to meet peak

demands

− Leverage elastic caching to

improve performance and QoS

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