WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers
You can centrally manage WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition servers and applications along with your other servers and applications from the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise environment.
Complete life cycle servers
You can create WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers in the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise environment that have complete life cycle management. To take advantage of complete life cycle management, install WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2 or later. Complete life cycle servers provide the following benefits:- You can create WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers from the administrative console, which creates a server on the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition runtime environment. These servers can also be vertically stacked on a server from a single run time.
- You can create expression-based dynamic clusters of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers.
- You can view the performance of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers in the runtime operations panels.
- You can install managed applications to WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers and dynamic clusters. When you install managed applications, you deploy the application within the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise administrative console.
- You can associate complete life cycle servers with health policies.
Discovered servers
Middleware discovery locates existing installations of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers and their installed applications, and creates the corresponding configuration to include servers and applications in the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise cell. Middleware discovery can preserve the time investment that went into building your original WebSphere Application Server Community Edition environment.
Middleware discovery can find WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 1 and later and V2 and later servers. These servers are represented as assisted life cycle servers. You cannot create expression-based dynamic clusters of these servers, but you can group the servers together in a dynamic cluster. The members of these dynamic clusters must have the same version of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and the same applications installed.
Any discovered applications are represented as unmanaged applications. You can install managed applications with the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise administrative console on discovered WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2 and later servers. For WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 1 discovered servers, you can create representations of the applications that have been installed in the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition console as unmanaged applications only.
Assisted life cycle servers
If you configured WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers with WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, you manually created representations of the servers in your environment that were assisted life cycle servers.
You cannot create expression-based dynamic clusters of these servers, but you can group the servers together in a dynamic cluster. The members of these dynamic clusters must have the same version of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and the same applications installed.
You can install managed applications to assisted life cycle WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V2 and later servers with the administrative console or administrative tasks. For WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V1 assisted life cycle servers, you can install unmanaged applications only. You install unmanaged applications within the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition administrative console and create representations of the applications in the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise administrative console.
Topology
Figure 1. WebSphere Virtual Enterprise and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition topology
| Installation in topology diagram | Installation path |
|---|---|
| WebSphere Application Server Community Edition installation 1 | /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServerCommunityEdition |
| WebSphere Application Server Community Edition installation 2 | /opt/WASCE2.0 |
| WebSphere Application Server Community Edition installation 3 | /opt/WASCE2.0 |
| WebSphere Application Server Community Edition installation 4 | /IBM/WebSphere/CommunityEdition/AppServer/ |
Related concepts
Middleware nodes and servers
Related tasks
Deploying WebSphere Application Server Community Edition applications
Configure assisted life cycle WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers