Coexistence support

Coexistence, as it applies to WAS products, is the ability of multiple installations of WAS to run on the same machine at the same time. Multiple installations include multiple versions and multiple instances of one version. Coexistence also implies various combinations of Web server interaction.

v6 WAS products can coexist with the following supported versions:

  • IBM WAS Advanced Server Single Edition and Advanced Edition, V4.0.2 and later

  • IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation Edition, Version 4.1 and later

  • IBM WebSphere Application Server, V5.0.0 and later

  • IBM WAS Network Deployment, V5.0.0 and later

  • IBM WAS Enterprise, V5.0.0 and later

  • IBM WebSphere Application Server, V5.1.0 and later

  • IBM WAS Network Deployment, V5.1.0 and later

All combinations of V4.x products, V5.x products, and V6.0 products can coexist so long as there are no port conflicts.

V4.0.x and V5.x can coexist with the v6 WebSphere Application Server clients:

Table 1. Multiversion WebSphere Application Server clients coexistence scenarios
Installed product WebSphere Application Server clients, V6
IBM WAS Advanced Single Server Edition, V4.0.2 and later Supported
IBM WAS Advanced Edition, V4.0.2 and later Supported
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation Edition, V4.1 and later Supported
IBM WebSphere Application Server, V5.0.0 Supported
IBM WAS Network Deployment, V5.0.0 Supported
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, V5.0.0 Supported
IBM WebSphere Application Server, V5.0.1 Supported
IBM WAS Network Deployment, V5.0.1 Supported
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, V5.0.1 Supported
IBM WebSphere Application Server, V5.0.2 Supported
IBM WAS Network Deployment, V5.0.2 Supported
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, V5.0.2 Supported
IBM WebSphere Application Server, V5.1 Supported
IBM WAS Network Deployment, V5.1 Supported

V4.0.x and V5.x products can coexist with V6 products:

Table 1. Multiversion coexistence scenarios
Installed product V5.x V6
Application Server Network Deployment Enterprise / WBISF Application Server Network Deployment Express
Advanced Single Server Edition V4.0.2 and later Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Advanced Edition V4.0.2 and later Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Enterprise Edition V4.1 and later Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere Application Server clients V4.0.x Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere Application Server, V5.0.0 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Network Deployment V5.0.0 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Enterprise,V5.0.0 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere Application Server clients V5.0.0 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere Application Server V5.0.1 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Network Deployment V5.0.1 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Enterprise V5.0.1 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere Application Server clients V5.0.1 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere Application Server V5.0.2 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Network Deployment V5.0.2 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Enterprise V5.0.2 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere Application Server clients V5.0.2 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere Application Server V5.1 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Network Deployment V5.1 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Integration Server V5.1 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
WebSphere Application Server clients V5.1 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported

In addition to multiversion coexistence, WAS also lets you install multiple times on one machine (multiple installation instances), or install once and have multiple profiles.

Multiple V6 instances on one machine include:

  • Multiple Application Server instances from multiple installations of the WebSphere Application Server product

  • Multiple Application Server profiles from a single installation of the WebSphere Application Server product

 

Related Tasks


Setting up V4.0.x and V6 coexistence
Setting up V5 and V6 coexistence
Setting up V6 coexistence
Using the Profile creation wizard