IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile V8.5.5 is a lightweight, composable, fast-starting platform that is optimized for modern application workloads, such as cloud and mobile. It is designed for enhanced developer productivity, high-scale and resilient production deployments, and simple integration into modern DevOps workflows. Liberty profile delivers the latest in Java Standards, which are certified to the Java EE 7 Web Profile and Java EE 7 Full Platform and supports their deployment across the widest spectrum of cloud environments and container-virtualization technologies.

Enhancements to WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile include:

• Java EE 7 full-platform certification that allows deployment of any Java EE 7 based application that uses the latest industry standards
• Updated certification to the Java EE 7 Web Profile that provides for the latest standards and supports a right fit runtime for the application
• Two times improvement in throughput for WebSockets
• Java EE 7 technologies that improve application productivity and support for the modern web apps, batch processing, and improvements in dependency injection
• Powerful administration capabilities that deliver simple, intuitive platform capabilities to manage a range of server topologies from a simple single server with a few applications to thousands of servers in a collective and cluster management environment
• Superior end-to-end security for servers, applications, and backend services that allow enterprises to seamlessly extend, scale, and integrate back-end security features to cloud and mobile users
• Simple integration into an end-to-end DevOps toolchain that enables a smarter development lifecycle to support delivery of continuous and rapid responses to changing business requirements
• WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools that provide flexibility to develop, deploy, test, and debug applications for either on-premise or off-premise cloud environments
• Extremely fast start-up time and light memory footprint that is highly optimized for throughput performance and policy-driven autonomic scaling to enable efficient resource utilization, significantly improve developer productivity, and lower the cost of ownership.
• Lower migration costs to future versions of WebSphere Liberty by eliminating migration of existing Java EE applications and configuration files
• Greater modular installation flexibility through WebSphere Liberty Repository enhancements that offers an offline, on-premise repository to share inhouse, open source, and Liberty features that enable greater governance and foster better collaboration among developers

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