IBM WebSphere Application Server has a strong history of delivering innovations and leading edge technologies that provide the right-fit infrastructure of choice. WAS continues that trend through the latest release of functions being offered through a continuous delivery stream. These new features are available through the new WAS Liberty Repository as well as existing tools like IBM Installation Manager and WebSphere Developer Tools for Eclipse. Choose the functions necessary for your environment download them easily from the repository or using your familiar tools and get up and running quickly. This component delivery enables agile development optimizes production environment and helps customers build engaging applications quickly. New features of the WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile provide significant enhancements in terms of developer experience and high-end resiliency:

• For developers new programming models and tools offer an enhanced developer experience to accelerate the pace of delivery of engaging applications. 
• For administrators and businesses new Intelligent Management and security features can help lower the administrative overhead of managing scaling and securing servers. 

“These features in conjunction with the ever-growing list of available choices to deploy WebSphere Application Server applications in cloud environments offer an optimal environment for your business applications. WebSphere Liberty not only brings agility and responsiveness to enterprise IT but also provides fuel for innovation and growth to enterprises in their quest to deliver engaging applications in cloud and mobile environments” said Walt Noffsinger – Program Director Product Management for IBM WAS.

Big Blue’s recently announced updates include:

• Key elements of the Java EE7 specification 
• Improved auto-scaling and auto-routing for dynamic workloads 
• Extended security with OpenID and OpenID Connect for more federated authentication 
• Expanded the operational efficiency of large-scaled clustered deployments 
• Improved global web service handlers 
• Enhanced the WebSphere Liberty Administrative Center and the Migration Toolkit

These new capabilities strengthen the WAS product that remains the consistent leader in middleware. Overall the WAS portfolio provides:

• High-availability management to help eliminate the cost of system downtime 
• Intelligent Management capabilities that deliver breakthrough levels of resiliency and reliability 
• Enterprise-level Java batch capabilities such as parallel job processing 
• Sophisticated load balancing security and caching at the edge of the network for enhanced performance and responsiveness 
• Integrated distributed caching to provide linear scalability responsiveness and fault tolerance 
• Enterprise-proven leading security capabilities to safeguard your business 
• Industry-leading performance that maximizes business competitiveness while minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) 

WebSphere Application Server is built to support modern cloud applications and mobile application environments as well as traditional web-based applications.

Noffsinger went on to explain the advantages of continuous delivery for clients using WebSphere Liberty. “Continuous Delivery gives customers just what they need – when they need it. This continuous evolution in our portfolio provides the greatest flexibility for companies’ light-weight and cloud-based deployments while delivering fidelity with traditional WAS deployments. Customers can choose to exploit features delivered in this way immediately while knowing that these will be rolled up into future full-version updates across WAS editions.”

“We constantly assess market needs and via continuous delivery can make changes to prioritized functions via our delivery cycle. It’s a constant assessment and adjustment” added IBM’s Raj Suryavanshi – WAS Product Manager.

“Our plans are to release betas regularly via our repository and then offer components as Generally Available downloads as soon as they are ready…like a service stream of generally available content you can elect to use or not” said Noffsinger.

Suryavanshi went on to say “If you only need a simple engine for basic web serving you can do that...at a very low price and footprint—and [with] very fast start times. And if you need something that’s mission critical—with high availability and operational simplicity at scale—you can get that in the portfolio as well —and have fidelity between the environments.”

Noffsinger and Suryavanshi along with WAS Release architect Michael Cheng dive into these new features on October 28 2014 in a complimentary webcast on the Global WebSphere Community. Listen and ask questions on the new release and get real-time answers from the experts. Learn more and register today.