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IBM WebSphere refers to a brand

Brand

A brand is a collection of symbols, experiences and associations connected with a product, a service, a person or any other artifact or entity....
of software products, although the term also popularly refers to one specific product: IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS). WebSphere is designed to set up, operate and integrate electronic business

Electronic business

Electronic Business, commonly referred to as "eBusiness" or "e-Business", may be defined as the utilization of information and communication technologies in support of all the activities of business....
applications across multiple computing platforms, using Java-based Web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain writing, s, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks....
technologies.

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IBM WebSphere refers to a brand

Brand

Electronic business

World Wide Web

History

The first product in this brand was IBM WebSphere Performance Pack, introduced in June 1998. Now, it is a part of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.

IBM WebSphere software

Following is the complete list of IBM WebSphere software, classified according to IBM. Several tools appear in more than one category.

Application Servers

Distributed Application & Web Servers

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

Distributed transaction

A distributed transaction is an operations bundle, in which two or more network hosts are involved. Usually, hosts provide transactional resources, while the transaction manager is responsible for creating and managing a global transaction that encompasses all operations against such resources....
monitoring:

IBM WebSphere Application Server

IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition ()
for z/OS
Z/OS

z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for mainframe computers, created by IBM. It is the successor to OS/390, which in turn followed MVS and combined a number of formerly separate, related products....
Network Deployment

Developer

for IBM System i
IBM System i

The IBM System i is IBM's previous generation of systems designed for IBM i users, and was subsequently replaced by the IBM Power Systems in April 2008....
(eServer pSeries, AS/400)
for z/Series

Extended Deployment

for z/OS
V6

Host Access Transformation Services
Real Time
IBM Rational Application Developer
Studio Device Developer
IBM Rational Software Architect
IBM Rational Software Architect

IBM Rational Software Architect, made by IBM's Rational Software division, is a comprehensive modeling and development environment that leverages the Unified Modeling Language for designing architecture for C++ and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition applications and web services....

Edge Servers

Caching, content distribution and load balancing

Load balancing (computing)

In computer networking, load balancing is a technique to spread work between two or more computers, network links, CPUs, hard drives, or other resources, in order to get optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, and minimize response time....
functionality:

IBM WebSphere Edge Server

Other Application Servers

Other platforms, on which to run interoperable applications:

Remote Server
WebSphere sMash (Project Zero
Project Zero

WebSphere sMash is a development and runtime environment from IBM for the creation of dynamic web applications using the scripting languages Groovy and PHP....
)

Business Integration

Application Integration and Connectivity

Application Integration and Connectivity middleware

Middleware

Middleware is computer software that connects software components or applications. The software consists of a set of enabling services that allow multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact across a network....
reduces the complexity of connecting applications to applications.

adapters
Data Interchange

for MultiPlatforms
for z/OS

IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances

IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances is a family of purpose-built, easy-to-deploy network devices that simplify, help secure, and accelerate XML and Web Services deployments while extending Search oriented architecture infrastructure....

DataPower Integration Appliance XI50
DataPower XML Security Gateway XS40
DataPower XML Accelerator XA35

IBM WebSphere ESB
IBM WebSphere ESB

IBM WebSphere ESB provides an Enterprise Service Bus for IT environments built on open standards, SOA, messaging and Web services technologies of WebSphere Application Server....
IBM WebSphere Message Broker
IBM WebSphere Message Broker

WebSphere Message Broker is IBM's information Message broker from the WebSphere product family that allows business information to flow between disparate applications across multiple hardware and software platforms....

for MultiPlatforms
for z/OS
with Rules and Formatter Extension for Multiplatforms
with Rules and Formatter Extension for z/OS

IBM WebSphere MQ

Express
Extended Security Edition
for z/OS
V6

WebSphere MQ Everyplace

Network Edition
Retail Edition

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
WebSphere Transformation Extender

Process Integration

Runtime and infrastructure for real-time

Real-time computing

In computer science, real-time computing is the study of Computer hardware and computer software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"?i.e., operational deadlines from event to system response....
application integration, event-driven processing and process automation.

WebSphere Business Events
Websphere Business Events

WebSphere Business Events is IBM's implementation of an event-processing engine.Event processing involves altering the existing server software in an organization to emit events whenever a notable event occurs....
Business Integration Server Express
Business Integration Workbench Entry Edition
Business Integration Workbench Server
Business Modeler

Advanced
Basic
Publishing Server

Business Monitor
Business Services Fabric
Event Broker
IBM WebSphere Integration Developer
InterChange Server
MQ Workflow

for MultiPlatforms
for z/OS and OS/390
OS/390

OS/390 is an International Business Machines operating system for the System/390 IBM mainframes.OS/390 was introduced in late 1995 in an effort, led by the late Randy Stelman, to simplify the packaging and ordering for the key, entitled elements needed to complete a fully functional MVS operating system package....

Partner Gateway

Advanced Edition
Enterprise Edition
Express

IBM WebSphere Process Server

Commerce

Web Commerce

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

IBM WebSphere Commerce
IBM WebSphere Commerce

IBM WebSphere Commerce is a software platform framework for e-commerce, including marketing, sales, customer and order processing functionality in a tailorable, integrated package....

Enterprise
Professional
Express

Mobile, Speech and Enterprise Access

Device Software

Device software is client-side software, embedded in mobile devices and interfaces with supporting server-side software.

Everyplace Custom Environment
Everyplace Micro Environment - this support many platforms, for instance, see their .

Mobile and Enterprise Access

Everyplace Access
Everyplace Deployment, which has evolved into IBM Lotus Expeditor
IBM Lotus Expeditor

IBM Lotus Expeditor is a framework by IBM's Lotus Software division for the construction, integration, and deployment of "managed client applications", which are client applications that are deployed from, configured, and managed onto a desktop, usually by a remote server ....
Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable

Speech

Delivers Business-to-employee (B2E)

Business-to-employee

Business-to-employee electronic commerce uses an intrabusiness computer network which allows companies to provide products and/or services to their employees....
and Business-to-consumer (B2C)

Business-to-consumer

Business-to-consumer describes activities of businesses serving end consumers with products and/or services.An example of a B2C transaction would be a person buying a pair of shoes from a retailer....
services, including: voice recognition

Speaker recognition

Speaker recognition is the computing task of validating a user's claimed identity using characteristics extracted from their human voice.There is a difference between speaker recognition and speech recognition ....
and telephony speech processing.

Embedded ViaVoice
Unified Messaging for WebSphere Voice Response

WebSphere

Everyplace Subscription Manager
Voice Response for AIX
Voice Server

Translation

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

Translation Server, for Multiplatforms

Other Mobile, Speech and Enterprise Access

Everyplace Device Manager
Everyplace Mobile Portal
Everyplace Server for Telecom
IP Multimedia Subsystem Connector
WebSphere Presence Server
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) Premises Server
WebSphere Telecom Web Services Server

Networking

Host Access

Provides multiprotocol transparency and control and connectivity (protocol stack

Protocol stack

A protocol stack is a particular software implementation of a computer networking protocol suite. The terms are often used interchangeably....
s and terminal emulation

Terminal emulator

A terminal emulator, terminal application, term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a "dumb" video Computer terminal within some other display architecture....
) to host applications.

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

Organizational Productivity, Portals and Collaboration

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 into a portal site.

Portal
Portlet Factory

Software Development

Integrated Development Environment

Application development tools for Websphere

IBM Rational Application Developer
Application Server Toolkit

Analysis Modeling & Design

Assists in creating resilient architectures for Service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Service-oriented architecture

In computing, service-oriented architecture provides methods for systems development and System integration where systems group functionality around business processes and package these as Interoperability Service ....
, programming specifications, business process

Business process

A business process or business method is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks thatproduce a specific service or product for a particular customer or customers....
es 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

Problem Determination Tools

Problem determination and debugging

Debugging

Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of computer bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected....
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

Process and Portfolio Management

Implements and manages enterprise processes and investments using proven tools and practices:

IBM Asset Transformation Workbench

Software Quality Management

Tools that address all dimensions of software quality

Software quality

In the context of software engineering, software quality measures how well software is designed , and how well the software conforms to that design , although there are several different definitions....
: functionality, reliability and performance:

Studio Workload Simulator for z/OS and OS/390

Traditional Programming Languages & Compilers

3GL

Third-generation programming language

A third-generation language is a refinement of a second generation programming language. Where as a second generation language is more aimed to fix logical structure to the language, a third generation language aims to refine the usability of the language in such a way to make it more user friendly....
and 4GL

Fourth-generation programming language

A fourth-generation programming language is a programming language or programming environment designed with a specific purpose in mind, such as the development of commercial business software....
/RAD language-based tools and unified development environments.

COBOL
COBOL

COBOL is one of the oldest programming languages still in active use. Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments....
Family

Systems Management

Application Performance & Availability

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

Studio Application Monitor

Enterprise Content Management

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

WebSphere compatibility matrix

This table is derived from
WebSphere version	WebSphere 3.5	WebSphere 4.0	WebSphere 5.0	WebSphere 5.1	WebSphere 6.0	WebSphere 6.1	WebSphere 7.0
Release date	1998 ?	June 2001 ?	November 2002?	November 2003 ?	late 2004	May 2006	Sept 2008
End of support	30 Nov 2003	30 April 2005	30 Sept 2006	30 Sept 2008
JDK	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.4	1.4	5.0	6.0
JavaEE	?	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.4	1.4	5.0
Servlet	2.1&2.2	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.4	2.5
JSP	0.91&1.0&1.1	1.1	1.2	1.2	2.0	2.0	2.1
EJB	1.0	1.1	2.0	2.0	2.1	2.1	3.0
WebSphere version	3.5	4.0	5.0	5.1	6.0	6.1	7.0

WebSphere

History

IBM WebSphere software

Application Servers

Distributed Application & Web Servers

Edge Servers

Other Application Servers

Business Integration

Application Integration and Connectivity

Process Integration

Commerce

Web Commerce

Mobile, Speech and Enterprise Access

Device Software

Mobile and Enterprise Access

Speech

Translation

Other Mobile, Speech and Enterprise Access

Networking

Host Access

Organizational Productivity, Portals and Collaboration

Portals

Software Development

Integrated Development Environment

Analysis Modeling & Design

Problem Determination Tools

Process and Portfolio Management

Software Quality Management

Traditional Programming Languages & Compilers

Systems Management

Application Performance & Availability

Enterprise Content Management

WebSphere compatibility matrix

See also

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