Packaging

WebSphere Application Server is a family of similar products designed to deliver the right combination of economy and application serving power for your business demands. The contents of the product packages are similar, but each package has unique elements. Use this topic to familiarize yourself with the various products so that you can determine the offering that best fits your needs.

The WebSphere software platform for e-business starts with a foundation that is formed from Web application serving and integration. IBM WebSphere Application Server software provides the core software to deploy, integrate, and manage your e-business applications.

WebSphere Application Server software supports custom-built applications that are either based on integrated WebSphere software platform products or on other third-party products. Such applications can range from dynamic Web presentations to sophisticated transaction processing systems.

[iSeries] IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express, WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment are incrementally related. As you scale up your e-business demand, you can also scale up your e-business capability by moving from one product to the next.

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] The management interface for all WebSphere Application Server product offerings includes a scripting interface and the administrative console, which is a Web application.

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] The scripting interface and the administrative console of the deployment manager are enhanced for managing all of the Application Server nodes in a distributed network cell. From the single point of control of the deployment manager, you can define servers, Web server processes, and clusters. You can start and stop servers and cluster members and deploy applications anywhere in the cell.

Product offerings

IBM WebSphere Application Server products provide a next-generation application server on an industry-standard foundation. Each product addresses a distinct set of scenarios and needs. WebSphere Application Server includes the following product offerings:

WebSphere Application Server - Express [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows]

This product is an affordable solution for creating, running and managing Web sites. The Express product provides a full J2EE application server. The runtime environment addresses standards-based programming for Web and component-based programming, as well as Web services.

The administration model for this offering is a single-server environment without clustering and without centralized administration of multiple server instances.

The development environment offering is the Application Server Toolkit and a trial version of Rational Application Developer. These products have an integrated development environment (IDE) with a graphical interface for developing code artifacts, assembling the code artifacts into various archives (modules) and configuring related J2EE deployment descriptors. They are built using Eclipse Version 3.2.1 technology.

WebSphere Application Server [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows]

This product offering addresses the basic programming and runtime needs of desktop developers and single-server production scenarios. The runtime environment addresses standards-based programming for Web and component-based programming, as well as Web services.

The administration model is a single-server environment without clustering and without centralized administration of multiple server instances.

The development environment offering is the Application Server Toolkit and a trial version of a Rational Tool product.

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows]

This product offering addresses WebSphere Application Server processes that run in multiple-server production scenarios. Use the Network Deployment product to create:
  • Cells

    The cell profile is an ease-of-use enhancement that provides a deployment manager profile that contains a federated application server on the same machine or partition.

  • Deployment managers

    The deployment manager provides centralized administration of managed Application Server nodes and custom nodes as a single cell. The deployment manager provides basic clustering and caching support, including failover support and workload balancing. Use the Edge components in the Network Deployment package to further extend the environment with sophisticated caching, load balancing, and enhanced security functions.

  • Application servers

    The application server profile in the Network Deployment product can run in a deployment manager cell as a managed node or on its own as a standalone application server.

  • Custom

    A custom profile has an empty node that you must add to a deployment manager cell to customize and use. Use the administrative console of the deployment manager to create servers and clusters on the custom managed node. Consider the custom node as a production-ready shell, ready for customization to contain your production-level servers and applications.

WebSphere Application Server - Express for i5/OS [iSeries]

This product offering addresses the basic programming and runtime needs of desktop developers and single-server production scenarios. The runtime environment addresses standards-based programming for Web and component-based programming, as well as Web services.

The administration model for this offering is a single-server environment without clustering and without centralized administration of multiple server instances.

The Express package provides two development environments for Windows and Linux systems, Application Server Toolkit and Rational Application Developer. These products have an integrated development environment (IDE) with a graphical interface for developing code artifacts, assembling the code artifacts into various archives (modules) and configuring related J2EE deployment descriptors. They are built using Eclipse Version 3.2.1 technology.

WebSphere Application Server for i5/OS [iSeries]

This product offering addresses the basic programming and runtime needs of desktop developers and single-server production scenarios. The runtime environment addresses standards-based programming for Web and component-based programming, as well as Web services.

The administration model is a single-server environment without clustering and without centralized administration of multiple server instances.

The development environment offering is the Application Server Toolkit and a trial version of the Rational Application Developer product. Both tools run on Windows and Linux workstations. The Rational Application Developer is an enhanced version of the WebSphere Studio Application Developer in Version 5.

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment for i5/OS [iSeries]

This product offering addresses WebSphere Application Server processes that run in multiple-server production scenarios. Use the Network Deployment product to create:
  • Cells

    The cell profile is an ease-of-use enhancement that provides a deployment manager profile that contains a federated application server in the same partition.

  • Deployment managers

    The deployment manager provides centralized administration of managed Application Server nodes and custom nodes as a single cell. The deployment manager provides basic clustering and caching support, including failover support and workload balancing. Use the Edge components in the Network Deployment package to further extend the environment with sophisticated caching, load balancing, and enhanced security functions.

  • Application servers

    The application server profile in the Network Deployment product can run in a deployment manager cell as a managed node or on its own as a standalone application server.

  • Custom

    A custom profile has an empty node that you must add to a deployment manager cell to customize and use. Use the administrative console of the deployment manager to create servers and clusters on the custom managed node. Consider the custom node as a production-ready shell, ready for customization to contain your production-level servers and applications.

Installation and operating model

In Version 6.x, the core product binary data is separate from the data that you create as you define and customize your WebSphere Application Server runtime environment. You can have multiple sets of customized runtime environments. Each environment is known as a profile.

Application server environments that are created during product installation

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows]
Product Default environments Application server processes created during installation
WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server - Express One standalone application server profile and the Profile Management tool for creating other application server profiles on the same machine. server1
Network Deployment One cell that contains a deployment manager profile and a federated application server profile and the Profile Management tool for creating other profiles.
  • Deployment manager profile: Dmgr01
  • Federated application server profile: AppSrv01
  • Federated application server process: server1
[iSeries]
Product Default environments Application server processes created during installation
WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server - Express One standalone application server profile named default. server1
Network Deployment
A default runtime environment is created that contains two profiles:
  • A standalone application server profile named default. This profile is considered the default profile, which is used when scripts that specify -profileName are run.
  • A deployment manager profile named dmgr.

After the installation has completed, you can use the addNode command or the deployment manager administrative console to add the default profile to the cell managed by the dmgr profile.

Install the Network Deployment product on each machine in a multiple-machine, distributed environment to give each server process access to a local copy of the core product files.

  • server1
  • dmgr

Launchpad console

New or updated for this feature pack Use the launchpad to install the WebSphere Application Server base product, Express, Network Deployment, or a supplemental product. You cannot use the launchpad to install the Feature Pack for Web Services since it is not available on disc. You must download feature pack installable images.

The launchpad is the focal point for installing from the product compact disc or DVD media, with important guidance for creating typical topology scenarios. Diagrams help you identify the types of systems that you can create. The launchpad is in the root directory of the product disc.

The launchpad works on installable components in the primary packet of discs. Select and launch any of the components on the product disc or view their HTML documentation on the disc.

Use the launchpad command if the program does not start automatically when you insert the product disc:
  • [AIX] [HP-UX] [Linux] [Solaris] ./launchpad.sh
  • [Windows] launchpad.bat
  • [iSeries] launchpad.bat for a Windows workstation installation

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] [iSeries] See Using the launchpad to start the installation for more information.

If you cannot start the launchpad, see the appropriate locale-specific readme file in the root directory on the disc. You can also launch the installation programs directly, using the information in the following table:
Table 1. Installable components on the product disc and the supplements disc
Launch command Documentation Name of installable component
WAS/install

WAS/readme/readme_en.html

WAS/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

The Getting Started guide contains these HTML files. The guide is also available in Adobe PDF format. Viewing the PDF format requires that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is a free download from the Adobe Acrobat Web site. Download the guide from: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/webserver/appserv/library/.

The name of the component varies per product offering:
  • [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] WebSphere Application Server – Express
  • [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] WebSphere Application Server
  • [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
  • [iSeries] WebSphere Application Server – Express for i5/OS
  • [iSeries] WebSphere Application Server for i5/OS
  • [iSeries] WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment for i5/OS
IHS/install

IHS/readme/readme_en.html

IHS/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

The IBM HTTP Server tolerates a non-root installation, but you cannot install the Global Security Kit 7 (GSKit 7) that is required for HTTPS security. You can install IBM HTTP Server as a non-root user, then log on as root to install the GSKit program from the directory on the product disc.

IBM HTTP Server
plugin/install

plugin/readme/readme_en.html

plugin/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] [iSeries] See Plug-ins configuration for an overview of how Web server configuration works.

Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server
AppClient/install

AppClient/readme/readme_en.html

AppClient/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

Application Client for WebSphere Application Server

Available on 32-bit operating system platforms only. Not available on Linux for zSeries (31–bit kernel).

InstallationFactory/compressed file

Decompress the file onto your system to install the Installation Factory.

InstallationFactory/readme/readme_en.html

InstallationFactory/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

IBM Installation Factory for WebSphere Application Server
UpdateInstaller/install

UpdateInstaller/readme/readme_en.html

UpdateInstaller/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

IBM Update Installer for WebSphere Software
ISA/install

ISA/readme/readme_en.html

ISA/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

IBM Support Assistant
Tip: For DVD media, if you do not use the launchpad, an additional directory prefix is required before the product directory that reflects the operating system and architecture of the installation. For example, the following installation path applies when you use CD-ROM media to install the Microsoft Windows version of the product on the 32-bit architecture:
install_root/WAS/install.exe
However, the following installation path applies when you use DVD media to install the Microsoft Windows version of the product on the 32-bit architecture:
install_root/win_ia32/WAS/install.exe

Other directories on the product and supplements discs contain components that are automatically installed during one or more of the installation procedures for the installable components.

Package descriptions [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows]

Each product package contains several Compact Discs, or CDs. You can also order Digital Versatile Discs, or DVDs, which can hold more information. The DVD product package contains fewer discs by placing the content of multiple CDs into subdirectories on a single DVD. The subdirectory names assigned to each platform are listed in the tables below.

The product discs are always in the primary disc packet.

Figure 1. Installation images in WebSphere Application Server packages
WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 family

Package descriptions for i5/OS [iSeries]

Each product package contains several Compact Discs, or CDs. You can also order Digital Versatile Discs, or DVDs, which can hold more information. The DVD product package contains fewer discs by placing the content of multiple CDs into subdirectories on a single DVD. The subdirectory names assigned to each platform are listed in the tables below. Some of the ancillary products in the DVD package are still on CDs.

The product discs are always in the primary disc packet.

Each product package contains several discs. Use the following link to view packaging information for each available product: Packaging Information for IBM WebSphere Application Server for i5/OS.




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