Refer to the code in the Samples Gallery that is available with the product. In particular, the Samples Gallery highlights new and WebSphere-specific aspects of the programming model.
- The top 10 (more or less) J2EE best practices
- The authors, which are IBM consultants and performance experts, describe this document in the following way: Over the last five years, a lot has been written about J2EE best practices. There now are probably 10 or more books, along with dozens of articles that provide insight into how J2EE applications should be written. In fact, there are so many resources, often with contradictory recommendations, navigating the maze has become an obstacle to adopting J2EE itself. To provide some simple guidance for customers entering this maze, we set out to compile the following "top 10" list of what we feel are the most important best practices for J2EE.
- IBM
Patterns for e-Business
- Patterns for e-business are a group of reusable assets that can help speed the process of developing Web-based applications. The patterns leverage the experience of IBM architects to create solutions quickly, whether for a small local business or a large multinational enterprise.
- WebSphere Best Practices and Performance Considerations
- This document is older (2001), but its focus on the fundamentals of Web and EJB application programming helps it stand the test of time.
- Best practices for using XSLT in WebSphere Application Server applications
- The author states: In this article I explore the reasons why some WebSphere Application Server applications use XSL for HTML production instead of JavaServer Pages (JSP) files. I will compare the performance of XSLT for HTML/XHTML production against JSP files and browser formatting. I will then provide guidance on how to improve XSLT performance in WebSphere Application Server should you decide to go this route. While this article focuses on the use of XSLT for the production of HTML, the performance best practices are directly applicable to other WebSphere Application Server uses of XSLT, such as XML-to-XML transformations and XML-to-text transformations.
- Best practices for using WebSphere Application Server Web services
- The author states: Web services performance comes of age in WebSphere Application Server Version 5.0.2, but just as with more traditional J2EE applications, the performance of Web services applications is largely determined by the design of the application and the database. This article considers the application design factors unique to Web services performance, including the most important: moving to WebSphere Application Server 5.0.2. I will examine the performance of WebSphere Application Server 5.0.2 Web services and establish some best practices for optimizing Web services performance on WebSphere Application Server 5.0.2
- WebSphere Application Server V5 TechNote: Separating Static and Dynamic Web Content
- This tip is a little dated in its details, but the premise remains true. It describes how to separate static content from a WebSphere application so it can be served by the Web server instead of the application server. Separating your static Web content (HTML, GIF, CSS files, and so on.) and dynamic Web content (servlets and JSP files) allows processing capacity to be split between the Web server and application server. You can then allocate capacity between the two based on the amount of dynamic and static content in your site. If your site serves mostly static content, it is more cost effective to add more Web servers than it is to add more application servers.
- WebSphere best practices on developerWorks
- The WebSphere Best Practices Zone provides a collection of best practices for administering WebSphere Application Server. Over time this zone will grow to include best practices for using other WebSphere software products, and to cover more topics.
- Rational on developerWorks
- This page provides quick links to technical resources and best practices for Rational software. Browse information by product or by technology. Find resources for learning, support, and developer communities.
- developerWorks main page
- This page is the entrance to IBM's resource for developers.
- Resource reference list
- WebSphere Application Server has a large amount of existing documentation. Use the following information as a guideline to find the documentation that you require.
- User communities and other non-IBM sites
- These sites gather knowledge about using WebSphere products.
- http://www.websphere-world.com/
- http://www.websphere.org/
- http://www.webspherepro.com/wphome/
- http://www.sys-con.com/websphere/
- http://websphereadvisor.com/
- WebSphere Application Server V5.x best practices for configuration changes
- This White paper describes how to manually modify certain parts of the WebSphere Application Server Version 5.x configuration that are not available through the administrative tooling that comes with the product. Version 5.x configuration, for all editions of the product, is stored in XML files in a subdirectory under the main product installation root directory.