WebSphere

ALSO CALLED: IBM WebSphere, MQSeries, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Servers, WebSphere Application Servers, Web-application Deployment Software, and WebSphere Portal Server
DEFINITION: WebSphere is a set of Java-based tools from IBM that allows customers to create and manage sophisticated business Web sites. The central WebSphere tool is the WebSphere Application Server (WAS), an application server that a customer can use to connect Web site users with Java  … 
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WEBSPHERE DEFINITION (continued): …  applications or servlets. Servlets are Java programs that run on the server rather than on the user's computer as Java applets do. Servlets can be developed to replace traditional common gateway interface (cgi) scripts, usually written in C or Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, and run much faster because all user requests run in the same process space.

In addition to Java, WebSphere supports open … 
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