
Development on J2EE Compliant Application Servers, Including BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere
IBM Web Sphere
The WebSphere brand represents a platform for today's e-business applications. The WebSphere vision and direction represent an ongoing strategy and vision about how software will evolve and meet future application needs. WebSphere is an application server that runs business applications and supports the J2EE and web services standards. It is a place to host business and presentation logic, which can integrate into the existing computing infrastructure of small as well as large organizations. The web server sits between the browser and the application server in the most common topologies. Static content is normally served directly from the web server while dynamic content requests are passed on to the application server. "Edge Services" refers to the WebSphere capabilities that work in conjunction with the web server to provide this caching at the edge of the network.