RE: WebSphere

Tom,
I do not think that Websphere is simply an add-on to a web server..I just come back from Solutions 99 and I can tell you that Websphere is in the center of all IBM strategies! Websphere has 3 flavours (Standard Edition, Advanced Edition and Enterprise Edition). The latest has not been announced on the AS/400 because it includes the Component Broker Connector ORB (written in C++) which has not been ported to the OS/400. Servlets and JSP are one approach to web development but the goal is to run EJB Applications on the AS/400 with entity/session beans which then accesses several technologies or environments like Domino, MQ series, TX series, others connectors to other RDBMS... For example, EJB for RPG shops will wrap existing applications with the AS/400 toolbox for Java. Websphere manage the DB2 accesses through pools, it also manages the sessions, look at security issues, performances, etc..

Furthermore Websphere is available on many platforms, AS/400,  NT, Novell, 390, AIX, etc... and runs on many web server type, even Microsoft IIS....

Best Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Heiber-Cobb [mailto:heibercobb@berbee.com]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 4:01 PM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: WebSphere

I believe it's more accurate to state that WebSphere is an add-on to a web
server. It provides an environment from which to execute server-side java.
One of the components of WebSphere is refered to as an application server.
At its most fundamental the application server portion delivers this
server-side java (servlets) to web based clients (IE, Netscape). In the
absense of a traditional HTTP server (web server) I don't believe WebSphere
can stand alone to provide its services.
        Anyone else want to weigh in on this? Any exceptions to my description?
Thanks,
        Tom H-C

At 07:58 AM 7/26/99 -0400, Mike  Everidge wrote:
>WeSpehere is a WEB server. Ours runs on an AS/400.
>
>
>>>> "Radhakrishnan Panicker" <hari_rk@hotmail.com> 07/25/99 09:20AM >>>
>Could someone tell me what exactly is WebSphere. Pardon me if this is a
>silly question.
>
>Thanks
>
>Krishnan
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