getting started with websphere

[Ishita Saha]

Hi,

I want to learn websphere as i got a project in same.
Please let me know good documentation to start with. Some tutorials and online links.

earlier i have some experiance with Tomcat & eclipse.

Thanks!

[Masoud Kalali]

First you may take a look at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/newto/
and then you can try and download websphere community edition from
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/wasce/?S_TACT=105AGX10&S_CMP=LP

there are tens of article about Eclipse and websphere community editon available in ibm site and the Web, just start from the first link and you will find the path.

[Merrill Higginson]

Just one word of caution: WebSphere Commercial Edition and WebSphere Community Edition are not really very much alike. If you want to learn WebSphere because your company or client is using the commercial edition, I'd suggest you see if you can get a copy of the commercial version WebSphere Applicatoin Server or Rational Application Developer (Which comes with WebSphere) from them. Otherwise, you can get a trial copy from the IBM website.

[Syed Nizar]

Well....... go to the followinf link and download the IBM Redbook for WAS6.0

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246451.html

[SunilRee Gupta]

Hi Ishita,

Apart from the links mentioned above by others, you can follow the following IBM INfo Cener Link

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/index.jsp.

you use search in this link, you will get lots.It talks about install, develop, deploy, tunes of WebSphere.

Regards
Sunil Kumar Gupta

[xin wei]

good. I also want to study websphere.

[xin wei]

what's the difference between the "WSAD" and "RAD"? My understanding is that: "WSAD" is the old name for the IDE, "RAD" is the new name. Is this right?

How can I download the websphere server commerical trial version?


thanks

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Originally posted by xin wei:
what's the difference between the "WSAD" and "RAD"? My understanding is that: "WSAD" is the old name for the IDE, "RAD" is the new name. Is this right?

Correct. IBM renamed it to include the Rational name after they acquired Rational. RAD (6+) is just a later version of WSAD (4-5).

Originally posted by xin wei:
How can I download the websphere server commerical trial version?

Have you looked on the IBM website yet?

[Cameron Wallace McKenzie]

I might humbly suggest my own website, which is full of free tutorials and CBTs that help you perform such WebSphere tasks as deployment, configuration, clustering and installation. There's also a bunch of free multi-media tutorials on things such as configuring portal, J2EE development and the like, most of which demonstrates application development using IBM's Rational Application Developer (IRAD).

Free WebSphere Admin and J2EE Development Tutorials

-Cameron Mckenzie