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Choosing between WAS Classic and WAS Liberty

09 Mar, 2016

“There are a number of aspects to consider when choosing between the traditional WebSphere Application Server (WAS full profile, or WAS Classic) and WAS Liberty for deployment. If you

have a hard requirement which is only available on one or the other (such as a particular API) then the choice is easy, but as the Liberty function has grown, it has become more common to

need to weigh the pros and cons of each more closely; to consider topology choices, operational capabilities and security options. Over one hundred and fifty IBM products have shipped with

Liberty as their internal application server and an ever-growing number of IBM SaaS offerings, such as BPM Workflow and Watson Analytics, are running on Liberty.“

See this document from IBM

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WebSphere Application Server Configuration Comparison Tool

06 Sep, 2019

The Configuration Comparison Tool (CCT) is a lightweight wsadmin script and Python report generation script which will produce HTML reports on configuration settings for the following types of resources. - Application Servers - Node Agents - Global Security configuration (not Domain Security) - Trust Association (Global and Domain) - SSL Configurations - Data Sources - J2C Resource Adapters - JDBC Drivers - Object Cache instances - Servlet Cache instances - Service Integration Bus instances - Resource Environment Providers - Resource Environment Entries - File system comparisons CCT usage scenarios: - Isolating configuration creep: Periodic configuration snapshots can be gathered and arch

08 Mar, 2018

You can enable Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for your web applications on a Liberty server. Enabling CORS will allow JavaScript clients to make requests against your application on the Liberty server even if the client and the server are on two different domains. Web browsers prevent these requests due to same-origin policy. I create the following configuration on my local machine on server.xml file:

26 Sep, 2017

In the web server plug-in, what do the LoadBalanceWeight, MaxConnections, ConnectTimeout, ServerIOTimeout, RetryInterval, IgnoreAffinityRequests, and GetDWLMTable options mean and what are the recommended settings for these options To understand how load balancing works in the web server plug-in, see Understanding IBM HTTP Server plug-in Load Balancing in a clustered environment(http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21219567). To understand how fail-over works in the web server plug-in, see Understanding HTTP plug-in failover in a clustered environment(http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21219808) . LoadBalanceWeight is a starting "weight". The value is dynamically change

Choosing between WAS Classic and WAS Liberty

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