Compare IBM WebSphere Application Server Editions
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Server Liberty Core Server Express* Application Server Server Network Server Hypervisor Server for z/OS
Deployment Edition
Smaller scale deployments Developers or business Developers or business Developers or business Developers or business Developers or business
of dynamic web applica- leaders at small and leaders at medium to large leaders who need advanced leaders who need advanced leaders at enterprises that
tions. This version of the midsize businesses who businesses who need a management, scalability, management, scalability, require z/OS qualities of
Optimized for: Liberty profile delivers the need an easier, scalable foundation to build, automated performance automated performance service to achieve optimized
Web Profile option. It reduced-cost, ready-to-go run and manage dynamic optimization and near-con- optimization and near-continu- performance and
delivers a reduced-cost, solution for smaller scale web applications on a single tinuous availability for their ous availability for their most near-continuous availability
ready-to-go solution. deployments of dynamic server or in moderately most mission-critical mission-critical applications; for their most mission-criti-
web applications sized deployment applications optimized to run in server cal applications
environments virtualization environments
Classic/Full Classic/Full Classic/Full Classic/Full Classic/Full
Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty
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Programming Models,
Standards and Development
Statement of Statement of Statement of Statement of Statement of
Java EE 7 Full Platform compliance Direction Direction Direction Direction Direction
Java EE 7 Web Profile compliance
Java EE 6 Full Platform compliance
Java EE 6 Web Profile compliance
Statement of Statement of Statement of Statement of Statement of
Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8) Direction Direction Direction Direction Direction
Java Platform, Standard Edition 6, and 7
Web 2.0 and Mobile
OSGi Applications
Dynamic caching
System Programming Interface (SPI) for extensibility SPI
(allows 3rd party extensions to Liberty features)
Fidelity from Liberty to full WAS
(Limited to Java EE6 programming models)
WebSphere App Server Developer Tools
(Java EE, osgi, web 2.0, mobile)
Rational Application Developer
(complete programming model)
Integration with z/OS services (WOLA and z/OS Connect)
Messaging and web services
Service Component Architecture (SCA)
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
WebRTC programming model support
Administration, High
Availability and Performance
Optional provisioning & management through
ND job manager
Collective Controller Membership and
Management
Intelligent Management (A5) (A5) (A5)
(Dynamic cluster, Health Policy)
Intelligent Management (Edition Management)
Zip or Archive install
Managed clustering
IHS routing and Load balancing 2 (A1) 2 (A1) 2 (A1) 25 (A1) 25 (A1) Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
(# of servers allowed)
WebSphere Extreme Scale (WXS) entitlement
(PVUs dependent on joint or separate installs)
- Separate: WAS PVUs plus WXS PVUs
cannot exceed entitled WAS PVUs (A2) (A2) (A3) (A3) (A3) (A3) (A4) (A4)
- Joint: WXS and WAS can share up to the
entitled WAS PVUs
Edge-of-network services
Security
Secure Engineering Accreditation OTT-PS
Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)
Oauth, OpenID and Open ID Connect
Role-based and Fine grained Administrative security
Kerberos Authentication
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Web Post Binding Profile
SPNEGO support for single sign-on
DB2 Trusted Context for Identity propagation
Encryption Standard FIPS 140-2, 800-131a
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Key:
*= WAS Express limited to 480 PVUs per machine (physical or virtual )
(A1) Unlimited in v8.5.5 and above
(A2) WXS capabilities are limited to HTTP session management and DynaCache , and can only be used in support of entitled WAS
(A3) WXS capabilities are not limited, and can be used in support of entitled WAS or for other purposes
(A4) WXS capabilities are limited to only the WXS client on z/OS
(A5) Intelligent Management Assisted Lifecycle Management in WAS-ND cell, Dynamic Routing and Autoscaling in WAS-ND Collective
Note: WAS Liberty profile does NOT support CEA, SCA and CG programming models. Those are only supported by Full profile
