WebSphere for Dummies

IBM Software Group WebSphere for Dummies Session: C12 Al Grega IBM Software Offerings Manager for System i algrega@us.ibm.com 2007 IBM Corporation Agenda The First Application Server What is WebSphere? The WebSphere Product Family on System i Q & A 2 2007 IBM Corporation 2 1

AS/400 The First Application Server AS/400 Born June 1988 Younger than PC technology and able to run multiple workloads on a single Server Serving thousands of Users on a Single Machine Ran 2000+ RPG and COBOL Applications the first Day! The AS stood for Application System 3 2007 IBM Corporation 3 Later the next Decade (mid-late 90 s) Sun Microsystems create Java and developers begin to write Applets The Web Application Server is created and Servlets did the heavy lifting PC Clients could now be thin View Controller Model Database PC Client UNIX Legacy & ERP Applets JSP s Servlets JDBC 4 2007 IBM Corporation 4 2

What is WebSphere? We Make IT Work for Business WebSphere Started as a Web Application Server in 1998 In 2000 IBM Launched It s a Different Kind of World, You need a Different Kind of Software and the WebSphere Brand was created In 2002 WebSphere Application Server surpassed BEA with the highest Market Share for Web Application Servers 5 2007 IBM Corporation 5 WebSphere is about People, Process and Information Integration 6 2007 IBM Corporation 6 3

Like any new building project you start with the Foundation WebSphere Application Server is the Foundation for running Java Applications 7 2007 IBM Corporation 7 Why use WebSphere Application Server? Needs? A integrated platform for NEW Java based applications on System i A standards based platform for maximum application compatibility Support for a broad number of platforms Advanced capabilities for applications that need to be Highly Available WebSphere Products? WebSphere Application Server Express (WAS), WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (WAS ND) Why System i? It s in there! WebSphere Application Server Express has been bundled with every license of i5/os.(since V5R3). WAS Express is designed to install on System i in minutes with no processor restrictions (WAS Express is limited to 2 processors on others) The bundled IBM Business Solutions get you going fast with applications that are useful 8 2007 IBM Corporation 8 4

WebSphere Application Server Express It s designed to Install in minutes on i5/os It supports the latest J2EE Framework for developing new Applications It s a foundation for other WebSphere Products H T T P S e r v l e t s WAS E J B s ERP i5/os (formerly know as OS/400) It s a place to run your Java Stuff It s services that provide access to your Data (JDBC) It s Administration to Manage your Applications 9 2007 IBM Corporation 9 Web Performance Monitor for i5/os Available with V5R4 and latest HTTP Server PTF s i5/os Exclusive Monitor response time and resource usage 10 2007 IBM Corporation 10 5

What s new in Web Administration for i5/os Web Performance Advisor i5/os Exclusive 11 2007 IBM Corporation 11 WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment H T T P S e r v l e t s E J B s WASND i5/os ERP EJBs WASND EJBs WASND Asia Pacific Europe, Middle East, Africa EJBs WASND Backup Provides HA for Java Apps! Americas Cloning! Fail Over! Clustering! 12 2007 IBM Corporation 12 6

WebSphere Application Server Express v6.1 http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/express/ WebSphere Application Server Express v6.1 now available with every new i5 and i5/os V5R3 or above Maintenance now part of Software Subscription IBM Business Solutions Tightly integrated with i5/os since V5R3 Delivered as a no charge LPP: 5722-BZ1 Includes: 1. New IBM Welcome Page 2. Survey Creator application, 3. The IBM Telephone Directory. 13 2007 IBM Corporation 13 IBM Survey Creator IBM Survey Creator can help: Learn about your customer s tastes and preferences Obtain valuable feedback on your products and services Conduct an employee satisfaction survey 14 2007 IBM Corporation 14 7

IBM Telephone Directory IBM Telephone Directory can help: Increase productivity by helping people find each other based on skills, location, or other criteria Better understand organizational and departmental structure Enable collaboration through e-mail and instant messaging 15 2007 IBM Corporation 15 Do you Buy or Do You Build? WebSphere Development Studio Client If you have a complier you already have this Or Are entitled to it! 16 2007 IBM Corporation 16 8

Why use WebSphere Development Studio Client? Needs? A single development environment for RPG, COBOL, Java Servlets, EJB s, Web Development, etc Tools to modernize existing 5250 OLTP applications without changing the underlying code An easy to learn fourth generation language that can generate Java or COBOL Wizards to allow ILE applications to generate Web Services or Graphical User Interfaces WebSphere Products? WebSphere Development Studio Client, WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition Why System i? If you have a compiler (that ships with 5722-WDS) you already have this software 17 2007 IBM Corporation 17 WebSphere Development Studio Client V7.0 http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wdt400/ Bundled with WebSphere Development Studio for iseries (5722-WDS) Edit and debug your RPG/COBOL apps Host compilers C/C++ COBOL RPG ADTS WebSphere Development Studio Client v7.0 Remote System Explorer iseries Projects All your Compilers and PDM, SEU, etc. Change Management Remote Development Support Web Components Web Interactive Wizard Web Tools for iseries Java Tools for iseries Wizards to speed along Java Development Reface 5250 Apps from DDS IBM WebFacing Tool HATS Toolkit Reface any 5250 screen, deploy portlets and web services Also CODE 400 and VisualAge RPG Rational Application Developer (Subset) Eclipse IDE Web Page and Java Design 18 2007 IBM Corporation 18 9

New! Selective Installation Features for Flexibility You can now transition SEU users to Remote System Explorer more easily WebSphere Development Studio Client Edits your ILE Programs Remote System Explorer Debug Plug-Ins PC based Debugging Environment Rational Application Developer (Subset) This is Eclipse IDE to support RSE and other plug-ins Features: Selective Install allows you to load the plug-ins you ll use Much lighter-weight Integrated Development Environment Minimum of 256MB of RAM Required 19 2007 IBM Corporation 19 WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wdt400/about/wdscae.html/ WDScAE has all the features of WDSc plus WebSphere Development Studio Client AE v6.0 New Application Design Component (Visualize Applications) Remote System Explorer iseries Projects Easier Integration with Rational Clear Case (IBM Change Mgmt Solution) Single Sign-on with EIM Web Tools for iseries Portal Toolkit Design Portlets from WebFaced Apps or HATS Deploy Cascading Style sheets, Portlets, and Handle System Screens IBM WebFacing Tool HATS Toolkit Rational Application Developer (Full Function RAD) WAScAE is sold per developer via Passport advantage Deploy Portlets Enterprise Java Bean Development i5 joblog support in RAD Log and Trace Analyzer 20 2007 IBM Corporation 20 10

Application Modernization 5250 Refacing Turning Green to GUI or a portlet or a web service 21 2007 IBM Corporation 21 Why Modernize Applications? Needs? Deliver existing applications in a browser, portal, or as a web service Reduce training costs by simplifying complex 5250 OLTP screens with consolidated point and click screens Run applications as a batch workload instead of Interactive WebSphere Products? IBM WebFacing Tool or HATS Studio for developing the modernized screens IBM WebFacing Deployment Tool with HATS Technology (WDHT) to run these modernized applications Why System i? If you have a compiler (that ships with 5722-WDS) you already have HATS Studio and the IBM Webfacing Tool to develop these new GUI s New pricing make it cheaper to deploy HATS workloads on System i than other systems 22 2007 IBM Corporation 22 11

The 5250 Refacing Bottom Line The IBM WebFacing Tool http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wdt400/about/webfacing.html HATS Toolkit http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/hats/index.html Both tools can web enable existing i5 Applications Development Tools for both tools are shipped with the IBM WebSphere Development Studio CD bundle With V5R4 both tools will need the IBM Webfacing Deployment Tool with HATS Technology (WDHT) take full advantage of their capabilities and to deploy the screens when completed 23 2007 IBM Corporation 23 Which one do you use? HATS Toolkit* WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services Toolkit IBM Webfacing Tool WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc) Requires an Interactive Workload Ability to alter screen flow Ability to combine multiple iseries applications into single Web interface Requires source code access Converts system screens Can generate portlets for WebSphere or Workplace Portal products Can generate Web Services Can generate a Rich Client Interface No Yes Yes No Yes Yes (Requires WDScAE) Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes (Requires WDScAE) No No *Note: The development environment for HATS Studio and the IBM Webfacing Tool are included with the WebSphere Development Studio Client. For V5R4 All three products require the IBM Webfacing Deployment Tool with HATS Technology (WDHT Announcement Letter 207-034) to deploy applications created with these tools. 24 2007 IBM Corporation 24 12

WebFacing Deployment Tool with HATS Technology (WDHT) V7.0 Announcement Letter: 207-034 http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=207-034 Used to deploy both IBM Webfacing and HATS modernized applications Replaces HATS for iseries offering New tier based pricing model Eliminates OLTP charge for HATS users Removes significant cost barrier for HATS sales in iseries accounts New for i5/os V5R4 Automatic transfer to new product for HATS customers at renewal Allows WebFaced applications to handle system or unexpected screens Can deploy both HATS and WebFaced Apps as a Single EAR file 25 2007 IBM Corporation 25 People Integration Portal Servers provide A flexible Framework for building exactly what your end users need 26 2007 IBM Corporation 26 13

Why use a Portal Server? Needs? One environment that delivers customized content to different types of users with different requirements for applications Ability for end users to customize their environment and still provide a single interface for the applications they need to do their jobs One sign-on to access all the applications a user needs in their daily activities IBM Products? WebSphere Portal Express, WebSphere Portal Enable Workplace Services Express, Workplace Collaboration Services Why System i? If you have an enterprise System i you may be entitled to 20 to 80 user licenses of Workplace Services Express Tools like WDSc and WDScAE make it easy to build portlets from existing 5250 applications for this new Portal environment 27 2007 IBM Corporation 27 Portal Servers Deliver the Content your Users Need Portlets Small Applications Most Portal Servers ship basic Portlets: News, Weather, Stocks Portlets can easily be generated from HATS and the IBM Webfacing Tool [in WebSphere Development Studio Client for iseries Advanced Edition] Many iseries Enterprise Edition Customers are entitled to Workplace Services Express News Portlets Weather Stocks 28 2007 IBM Corporation 28 14

Product Use Internet Customers and Partners Minimal Collaboration Line of Business Intranet Employees and Executives Extensive Collaboration On-Line Education WebSphere Portal Enable WebSphere Portal Express Future Workplace Collaboration Services Workplace Services Express Features: Portal User Interface Portal Framework to add your own Portlets Easy to Use Admin Authenticated Single Sign-on Web Content Mgmt Features: Portal Framework to add your own Portlets Team Spaces Services Document Services Instant Messaging Features: Team Spaces Services Document Services Instant Messaging Web Conferencing Messaging Services (e-mail, calendaring, scheduling) Web Content management 29 2007 IBM Corporation 29 Provide Better Customer Service Electronic Commerce Extends your business to the Web Or Provides a platform for Business to Business 30 2007 IBM Corporation 30 15

Why Electronic Commerce? Needs? Provide your customers/partners with a consistent experience whether they buy online, in the store or over the phone Target the right customers with the right messages, offers, cross-sells and up-sells Give your employees the tools they need to effectively and responsively manage customers, orders, content and campaigns Tightly integrate operations across Web, store, telesales and the back-office Connect with your supply chain to improve inventory and fulfillment processes WebSphere Products? WebSphere Commerce Express, WebSphere Commerce Professional Edition, WebSphere Commerce Business Edition Why System i? System i can provide a highly scalable environment for Development, Test, QA, Staging, Stress and Production all on a single server System i provides a stable forgiving environment for greater application level availability essential for any Commerce workload Doesn t take an army to run (Dev., Test, Q&A, etc. would be separate servers on other platforms) 31 2007 IBM Corporation 31 IBM Commerce Options http://www.ibm.com/software/genservers/commerce/express/ Express Basic B2C or B2B Storefront, Shopping Experience Targeted Marketing Merchandising Personalization Order management Business Analytics Professional Advanced Analytics Data Mining Collaboration Advanced Product Search Clustering Support Enterprise Channel Management Contract and policy Management Advanced Roles and Relationships Collaborative Workplaces Reseller Hosting Supplier Enablement Buy-Side Support Multi-Round RFQ Entry e-commerce Advanced Multichannel Extended Demand Chain All available on i5/os 32 2007 IBM Corporation 32 16

Application, Partner and Process Integration Business Integration It s s about keeping up with change! Without throwing away what you have 33 2007 IBM Corporation 33 Why Application Integration? Needs? Leverage existing in-house skills to connect applications on different servers Prevent lost transactions WebSphere Products? WebSphere MQ Why System i? WebSphere MQ API s can be easily coded by existing System i developers eliminating the need for new developers System i is naturally highly available making the guaranteed message delivery capability of WebSphere MQ even more reliable 34 2007 IBM Corporation 34 17

WebSphere MQ http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wmq/ Integrates your Applications Connects to commercial systems in business today You can ignore network disruptions - important data is always delivered. Leverages a rich set of API's available for many languages Leverages your in-house RPG and COBOL skills Supports over 35 platforms Considered to be a defacto standard for messaging Market share now over 80%, according to consultants Usage Used at more than 10,000 customer sites Used by more than 350 of IBM's top 500 customers Used by more than 66% of NA and European banks 9 out of top 10 Fortune 100 customers Proven ability to handle millions of messages per day 35 2007 IBM Corporation 35 Why Partner Integration? Needs? Exchange EDI documents over the Internet instead of using expensive Value Added Networks WebSphere Products? WebSphere Partner Gateway Express Why System i? Many System i customers already have EDI Translators, combining them with WebSphere Partner Gateway Express can save money by using the Internet 36 2007 IBM Corporation 36 18

WebSphere Partner Gateway Express http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wspartnergateway/express/ Improve Operations EDI Over the Web Helps customers quickly conform to industry mandates like AS2 (Certified by ebusinessready.org) Enables customers to join sophisticated trading communities quickly and easily (up to 5 trading partners) Reduces the risks and costs associated with traditional B2B environments Leverages widely used internet protocols like HTTP and HTTPS for Data Exchange Supports a wide range of data-formats for communication Easy-to-use package that requires little skill Can plug into conventional EDI Translation Tools 37 2007 IBM Corporation 37 Why Business Process Management? Needs? Build a more agile IT to keep up with new trends and competition Eliminate copying and pasting code by delivering existing applications as reusable services Implement a flexible business environment based on industry standards and proven mature technology Need a dependable infrastructure that will grow with your business WebSphere Products? The IBM SOA Foundation: WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Business Monitor Why System i? Many ways to generate and consume web services directly from existing 5250 applications WebSphere Application Server Express with every new machine 38 2007 IBM Corporation 38 19

Building SOA-based Solutions for IBM System i Platform SG24-7284 This book provides the detailed information about multiple ways for building SOA-based solutions around System i platform. The discussion in the book covers the server and client side implementations that include: ProgramCall in IBM Toolbox for Java HATS DB2 Web services PHP Web services client for ILE (RPG, C, C++, COBOL) Java-Server Faces (JSF) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247284.html?op en 39 2007 IBM Corporation 39 How the IBM SOA Foundation Portfolio works together + BPEL WebSphere Integration Developer WebSphere Business Modeler WebSphere Process Server, WESB* WebSphere Business Monitor *SOD on i5/os, 2007 40 2007 IBM Corporation 40 20

End-to-end process capabilities for your SOA IBM SOA Foundation: http://www.ibm.com/soa WebSphere Integration Developer http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wid/ Discover Construct & Test Compose WebSphere Process Server* http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wps/ Integrate people Integrate processes Integrate information WebSphere Business Modeler http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wbimodeler/ Gather requirements Model & Simulate Design, Import from Visio *SOD on iseries, GA 2007 WebSphere Business Monitor http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wbimonitor/ Manage IT resources Manage services Monitor business metrics WebSphere ESB* Connectivity infrastructure for integrating applications and services to power your SOA http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wsesb/ 41 2007 IBM Corporation 41 The Entire WebSphere Portfolio CAN run on System i WAS Express & WAS ND WDSc and WDScAE IBM Webfacing, HATS Toolkit, WDHT WebSphere Portal Express, Express Plus & Enable WebSphere MQ WebSphere Partner Gateway Express WBI Server Express & Express Plus WESB & WebSphere Process Server (SOD 2007) WebSphere Commerce Express, Pro and Business Edition Other WebSphere Products can still run here and here and here! You get the Picture IBM Virtualization Engine allows you to manage all these environments! 42 2007 IBM Corporation 42 21

43 2007 IBM Corporation 43 Summary WebSphere* Products Supported on i5/os WebSphere Products on i5/os WebSphere Application Server Express V6.1 WAS Express Mulitplatform v6.1 (for WAS in LPARs) WAS ND V6.1 WebSphere Commerce Express v6.0 WebSphere Commerce Professional v6.0 WebSphere Commerce Enterprise v6.0 WebSphere MQ V6.0 WebSphere MQ Everyplace, V2.0 System i SKU/PID 5722-WE2 ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ Multiplatform N/A D5CB9LL D5ALTLL D53WYLL D53WLLL D53VBLL D523ZLL D51TKLL Announce Letter 206-076 206-076 206-076 206-115 206-115 206-115 205-094 202-268 WebSphere Development Studio for iseries V5R4 5722-WDS N/A 207-033 WebSphere Development Studio Client for iseries V7.0 (packaged with WebSphere Dev Studio) 5722-WDS N/A 207-030 WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition for iseries, V7.0 D51LPLL N/A 207-030 WDHT (IBM Webfacing Deployment Tool with HATS Technology) v7.0. This product replaces HATS for iseries. P05 - D575WLL 207-034 IBM Host Access Client Package for iseries, V6 WebSphere Host Integration Solution for iseries, V5 D50HWLL D52C8LL D5BGCLL D5BIDLL 206-171 204-254/255 WebSphere Business Integration Server Express v4.4 ------------ D53QDLL 205-089 WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Plus, Version V4.4 ------------ D53QILL 205-089 WebSphere Partner Gateway Express, Version 6.0 ------------ D5551LL 205-158 * All WebSphere Products can run on System i: LPAR running AIX 5L or Linux, or on an ixs w/windows or Linux. 44 2007 IBM Corporation 44 22

Your KEY WebSphere on System i Resources! To Better Understand the WebSphere Software Platform on System i! WebSphere on System i Start Here! WebSphere and other SWG System i References ibm.com/systems/i/success/ System Ii Developers Road Atlas http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/roadmap/index.html IBM Redbooks System i Domain http://publibb.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/systemi IBM IT Education Services System i Training ibm.com/services/learning/us/catalog/iseries/ IBM Web Lecture Services - System i College http://www.ibm.com/services/weblectures/dlv/ibm/iseries IBM developerworks ibm.com/developerworks/ isociety ibm.com/systems/i/isociety/ To Build WebSphere Software Platform Skills and Solutions! IBM Global Services System i Practice ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/igs/ IBM Custom Technology Center ibm.com/eserver/services/ iseries Benchmark Centers ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/benchmark/cbc/ Business Partners in WebSphere Portal Catalog ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp?tab=lan dings/portalbuzz To Leverage WebSphere Partner Programs! IBM PartnerWorld ibm.com/partnerworld Virtual Innovation Center Online http://www- 304.ibm.com/jct03004c/partnerworld/vic/JSP/login /portal_login.jsp 45 2007 IBM Corporation 45 Trademarks and Disclaimers 8 IBM Corporation 1994-2007. All rights reserved. References in this document to IBM products or services do not imply that IBM intends to make them available in every country. Trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml. 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