IBM WebSphere Application Server Reviews

Highly scalable High availability in hardware and software mode Easy maintenance Simple and easy-to-use development tools

Limited web console Managed security in operating system and not in application layer Desktop tools for administration very poorly optimized Poor emphasis on JCA standards

IBM WebSphere Application Server allows to integrate with other WebSphere tools easily and quickly. It is the oldest application running server to deploy or host java applications mostly, Also the documentation provided by IBM is pretty easy to understand and implement, customer support is also good. The best thing about it is it supports both on prem as well as cloud.

Cost is bit hight for IBM WebSphere application server so it is suitable for banking or big companies. Also if it provides videos along with documents then it will be helpful to beginners. Sometimes it tooks time to start the server.

I have been using IBM WebSphere Application Server and Portal for a long time, and it does come with tons of options and integration features, which is great for big enterprise systems.

I've had many issues with it - official docs are really bad, the community is small and it is hard even to describe some problems you experience, and it takes more time to learn than other options available. And since not many people are familiar with it, it is sometimes not easy to find a good engineer to support it.

WebSphere has support for nearly any type of web server you need. While we've mainly used WebSphere Application Servers to run Maximo and related 3rd party applications, we've also tested using Tomcat, Liberty, and other server options/configurations with great success. Control is handled nicely from a web-based dashboard.

There is a steep learning curve to configuring WebSphere even for a simple use. If you're already familiar with basic web servers (such as Apache Tomcat), you'll be able to get a basic server set up and running fairly quickly, but as soon as you need any additional functionality, it can often take a long time to figure out how to accomplish it in the web-based UI. While guides abound for just about any functionality, there is always multiple ways to do it that seem to conflict with each other at times. The web-based UI is really just executing some .bat files on the backend, and if you learn those, you can accomplish certain tasks much quicker. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of trial & error is the only way to learn.

It is one of the oldest running application servers from IBM, though they keep upgrading it to a newer version. It has all the basic functionality that you will look for in an application server. You can host all your applications especially the Java built applications on it. Our complete middleware tools like MQ and Message Broker were integrated very easily and securely with it.

The administration part of the tool is little difficult to understand at first. One really needs to go through the documentation thorougly to get the hang of it.

+ Easy to install. (No complex implementation steps) + High stability (Never experienced an unstable situation ) + Can deploy as a microservice. + Larger community support and plenty of community resources. + Proper documentation from principal vendor. + Supports both On-prem and cloud.

+Even though the installation is easy, Configuration is quite complex. +Key management is not easy. +Patch management is little bit tricky , but manageable.

Is an integration layer software that allows easy communication With the service components of an organization which makes ir highly profitable system for companies due to its stability and management

Ease of integrating bussiness components

Security enabled, easy to deploy, stable, reliable, the console is very easy to use. Ease of installation/management, Stays current with patches/updates

not lightweight, Takes a bit time to get a server up and running. pricey as well, the support was not up to the mark, if you are struck somewhere.

I worked as WS admin for a number of years. It's a generally stable software, once it's properly installed and configured

Mainly, WS suffers common issues in IBM software - Can be REALLY hard to install, specially in non-default scenarios - Support is terrible - Very steep learning curve

It is expensive tool so most of the clients are big companies or banks

hard to use, complicated to deploy, expensive

Die Idee ist Grundsätzlich nicht schlecht aber man merkt wie eingestaubt diese Software mittlerweile ist.Es gibt eine "Bausteine" die ganz nützlich sind.

Wir hatten diese Anwendung als Intranet im Einsatz und mussten diesen täglich neustarten, da es Memory Leaks gab. Man muss auch dazu sagen, dass wir diesen unter Windows im Einsatz hatten, was wohl eher eine Rarität darstellt, aber so eigentlich gar nicht zu betreiben war.Ein neustart der Plattform hat gut und gerne 40 Minuten gedauert in dem das Intranet damals bei uns nicht erreichbar war.Der Support konnte uns nicht helfen.

Reliable application server to deploy applications with constant security upgrades. Good support from IBM team to help resolves issues.

Cost is one of the major concerns as there are other open sourced free servlet container such as Apache Tomcat.

JNDI and Eclipse integration

Bugs that result in using up my server disk space

It's robust, it's based on standardize j2ee engine build by IBM and also have SSO technology available out of the box. IBM support is excellent .

Not so easy to be used, you need to take some course to have a fast start.

it is a very stable server for application development and nodes/clusters can be configured/connected. Has a good console interface too.

it takes longer than usual to start the server and the other thing is that documentation could have been more comprehensive too

It's very easy to install and as a java supporting web server it can host large scale of applications like filenet and case manager, other supporting tool are also easy to configure and syncing and organizing diffrent nodes in single websphere installation is very good.

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Stability and robustness. Its easy to learn and new versions are well tested. The development tools are easy learning

Price. Is expensive and the licenses are adquiere by core. Depending on your contract and the infraestructure this could mean a lot of money yearly

Very stable product that can handle large volumes of loads. It is very reliable for large implementations.

Cost is on the higher side and Issues are sometimes very hard to trace. Working through support can be cumbersome.

IBM WDI drag and drop mapping is easy

send/receive mapping is more complicated than the new DT mapping

A rich set of tools and services to make business to business operations

A little bit complicated to use, especially for new users

- robust application server - provides very good logging mechanism , very good clustering support

- Customer Services is very poor , IBM needs to urgently address issue of customer dissatisfaction. - Ease of deployment of applications needed like tomcat,JBoss server - Not very good community support for WebSpeher.

It provides the feature of creating custom queue managers and put custom messages on it for your component. Main benefit of this software is it helps to customize it according to your requirement.

Any tutorial video can be provided for the beginner users.

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What I like most about this software is how easy it is to deploy. There's a simple wizard and step by step guide that makes setting it up pretty easy and straightforward. Another thing I like is that it's highly customizable.

One major thing I don't like about this product is the cost. I think the price is rather too high, especially when compared to similar products. Another thing is the really bad support. I hope IBM can improve on that

I am a software developer, I use this software because it works relatively well if it can be configured properly

I really dislike it because there is little to no customer support whenever I encounter a problem as well as it has a small supporting community