My experience with IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition WAS Administration
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition is a fundamental part of our institution because most of core applications are running on it, WAS (WebSphere Application Server) provides us with a stable and secure platform to all environments, avoiding business service disruptions, and reducing incidents.The platform reliability ensures our business areas have uninterruptable access that allows its tools to operate smoothly. Additionally, using Liberty Profile we have reduced our licensing costs, and IT resources too, while maintaining the product's robustness at a better cost, About Support the SME are helping us to resolve issues swiftly and guided us toward optimal solutions
Pros
- Auto recovery actions to have service on going
- Support high volumen requests on production environment
- Support multiples development standard like (EE,JSE,Servlets,)
- Support high availability clustering the applications
Cons
- Which includes any tools to obtain performance metrics
- Improve product documentation
- Provide an administration interface in liberty profile
Return on Investment
- Licensing costs are reduced by using Liberty Profile
- Migration from tradicional WAS(8.x,9x) to Liberty profiles implies manual configuration that most be automated
- IT costs are reduced by using Liberty Profile, because Liberty is a lightweight runtime
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Apache Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Other Software Used
IBM App Connect, Apache HTTP Server, IBM MQ


