This topic applies to WebSphere Application Server Liberty V8.5.5.9 and earlier. For the latest Liberty topics, see the WebSphere Application Server Liberty documentation.

Using Liberty as an application development environment

Liberty is a lightweight, and very quick, application server. Coupled with the associated free developer tools, Liberty provides a convenient application development environment for your web and OSGi applications.

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Liberty is extremely lightweight, easy to install, and very fast to use. It therefore provides a convenient and capable platform for developing and testing your web and OSGi applications. This is especially true if you are developing applications to run on IBM® WebSphere® Application Server, because any application that runs on Liberty will also run on WebSphere Application Server traditional.

For application development, you might want to install Liberty on its own, either by using the Installation Manager or by downloading an executable JAR file from the WASdev community download page. For distributed platforms On distributed platforms, you might prefer to develop your applications using the WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse that are freely available. If you do this, you do not have to install Liberty beforehand. The developer tools can also download and install the application-serving environment.

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