Edge Components and the WebSphere family

You can use Edge Components with other WebSphere® software products to improve access control, security, and provide a portal framework.

The IBM® WebSphere software products software for SOA environments that enables dynamic, interconnected business processes, and delivers highly effective application infrastructures for all business situations. WebSphere is IBM's application and integration software platform, and includes the entire middleware infrastructure, including servers, services, and tools, needed to create, deploy, run, and manage enterprise-wide web applications, and cross-platform, cross-product solutions.

The WebSphere family consists of WebSphere Application Server, including the Edge Components, and other WebSphere family software that is tightly integrated with the WebSphere Application Server to provide an effective application infrastructure for business situations. You can use Edge Components with Tivoli® Access Manager, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Site Analyzer, and WebSphere Transcoding Publisher.

Tivoli Access Manager

Tivoli Access Manager, formerly Tivoli Policy Director, provides access control and centralized security for existing web applications and offers one-time authentication capability with access to multiple web resources. A Caching Proxy plug-in uses the security framework of Access Manager, which enables the proxy server to use integrated authorization or authentication services of Access Manager.

WebSphere Portal Server

WebSphere Portal Server, available separately from WebSphere Application Server, offers a framework to meet the presentation, security, scalability, and availability issues that are associated with portals. Using Portal Server, companies can build their own custom portal website to serve the needs of employees, Business Partners, and customers. Users can sign on to the portal and receive personalized web pages that provide access to the information, people, and applications that they need. This personalized single point of access to all necessary resources reduces information overload, accelerates productivity, and increases website usage.

WebSphere Portal Server runs in a WebSphere Application Server cluster to achieve scalability and reliability. You can also use the Application Server Load Balancer component for additional load balancing and high availability.

WebSphere Site Analyzer

WebSphere Site Analyzer, available separately from WebSphere Application Server, helps enterprises to anticipate capacity and performance problems. With Site Analyzer, you can use Caching Proxy and Load Balancer logs and other manageability aids to anticipate the demand for more resources by monitoring, analyzing, and reporting your website usage. In addition, Site Analyzer manageability components assist users who install and upgrade Edge Components, manage and store configurations, operate Edge Components remotely, and view and report events.

WebSphere Transcoding Publisher

WebSphere Transcoding Publisher, available separately from WebSphere Application Server, can convert a web page for viewing on a mobile device, translate web content to the user's preferred national language, and convert markup languages. This product uses WebSphere Translation Server to translate web content. Transcoding Publisher enhances the capabilities of Caching Proxy by enabling the proxy to serve content for different devices and users. After accessing content from a web server, you can configure the Transmogrify interface of the Caching Proxy to start Transcoding Publisher to transform the data and tag it for variant caching and possible reuse. At the post-authentication interface for Caching Proxy, the Transcoding Publisher then checks the proxy server for content that matches the user and device requirements. If a match is found, the Transcoding Publisher serves the content from the cache of the proxy server.


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