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Why use WebSphere Application Server vs. the integrated Web application server?

April 26, 2017application Integrated server vs web websphere

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Why use WebSphere Application Server vs. the integrated Web application server?

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Use WebSphere Application server if you want the following: • You need higher availability or more scalability • You are supporting cross platform deployment and only want to test with one application server • You use more then one JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface) connection • You want to use the built-in messaging engine based on WebSphere MQ, or the Java Based Messaging Engine • You need more of the robust features in WebSphere Application Server such as • Support for full J2EE programming model • servlets, JSP’s, JSF’s • EJB’s, JMS • JDBC (integrated app server has limited namespace, only allows one JNDI connection) • Support for full & extended J2EE packaging model • WAR, EAR, RAR files • IBM extensions (extended deployment descriptor, annotations, etc.) • Support for n-tier deployment model • HTTP server, application server, DB on same or different machines • cross platform, heterogeneous capabilities • Run tiers on different servers, operating systems, etc. • Support fo