WebSphere sMash

A development and execution platform for quickly building agile, web-based applications.

WebSphere sMash v1.1 enables developers to quickly build and execute agile, Web 2.0-based applications that help businesses be more responsive, flexible and cost-effective. As a fast and simple application foundation, WebSphere sMash advances Smart SOA and accelerates business and IT alignment.

• Supports some of today's hottest dynamic scripting languages – PHP and Groovy – and provides an agile web application development environment that has a small footprint, is easy to modify and is fast to re-start.
• Allows you to unleash and reuse enterprise content, including SOA services, as RESTful services. It extends the reach of SOA – effectively using the web as your SOA platform.
• Enables the rapid aggregation of disparate services and feeds and supports a broad array of Microsoft environments, bringing you the information you need quickly.
• Is based on the highly-acclaimed public incubator and developer community, Project Zero. Visit www.projectzero.org to learn more and get involved.
• The IBM Reliable Transport Extension for WebSphere sMash provides the additional capability for WebSphere sMash Version 1.1 applications to interact, using an asynchronous, reliable transport based on queues.
• WebSphere sMash Developers Edition v1.1 is available for free download and limited deployment. It represents the stable version of WebSphere sMash plus browser-based tooling and an Eclipse plug-in, while the latest iterations of the tooling are available on www.projectzero.org . WebSphere sMash licenses are purchased when deploying it into production.

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• Unleash Content as REST Services
  Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that allows services to be exposed and consumed over the Web using only a simple URL. Leveraging REST technology, WebSphere sMash extends SOA to the web -- effectively using the Web as the SOA platform.

  
  Using WebSphere sMash, companies can enable new models of revenue by unleashing their content to the world as REST services, take advantage of the huge array of REST services available on the Web to build new applications, and easily reuse these assets in future projects.

• Leverage the Power of Scripting for Agile Development
  Because WebSphere sMash applications are based on dynamic scripting, they can be run without any compilation -- a feature which eases the overhead of application development and makes modification and customization easy.

  
  WebSphere sMash supports two dynamic scripting languages, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (commonly known as PHP), and Groovy, a dynamic scripting language which leverages existing Java skills.

  
  Furthermore, because WebSphere sMash only uses the modules it needs, the storage and memory footprints are exceptionally small (You can even run it from a USB key!) and the server can restart in seconds!

• Quickly Combine Services and Feeds with Visual Tools
  WebSphere sMash offers visual assembly-style development for designing server-side business logic as well as visual design editors for designing rich user interfaces.

  
  Using the visual assembly tool, developers can easily tie together disparate services and feeds into new applications and create server-side business logic (such as exchanging data with a backend system or kicking off an approval process via an e-mail).

• Quickly build and deliver situational applications that meet your clients' specific needs

• Leverage REST technology to expose and consume web services and take advantage of your clients' exiting SOA investments

• Provide a cost effective solution that complies with key IT operations guidelines around manageability, scalability, and security

• Assemble server-side logic and build user interfaces for your clients using visual tooling

• Dynamic scripting languages

• Fewer lines of code

• Browser-based tooling

• Leverage pre-existing content

• Use the web as your SOA platform

• Visual Assembly-style development

• Small footprint

• Easily modify your applications

• Restart the server in seconds

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Operating System Type	Platforms	Operating Systems	Java SDK	Disk Space including IDE and Java2 SDK
Linux	Intel / AMD 32 bit and Intel / AMD 64 bit IBM Z Series 64 bit IBM P Series 64 bit	SuSE 10 SP2 - 32/64 bit SuSE 11 - 32/64 bit RHEL 5.0 - 32/64 bit SuSE 10 SP2 - 64 bit SuSE 11 - 64 bit RHEL 5.1- 64 bit SuSE 10 SP1 - 64 bit SuSE 11 - 64 bit RHEL 5.2 - 64 bit	Supplied IBM Java 2 SDK V6 SR4 - 32bit Supplied IBM Java 2 SDK V6 SR4 - 31 bit Supplied IBM Java 2 SDK V6 SR4 - 32bit	275MB 275MB 275MB
AIX	IBM P Series 32 bit 64 bit	5.3 [5300-08-01-0819] - 32/64 bit 6.1 [6100-00-04-0815] - 32/64 bit	Supplied IBM Java 2 SDK V6 SR4 - 32bit	275MB
Windows	Intel / AMD 32 and Intel / AMD 64	Windows Server 2003 - 32/64 bit and Windows Server 2008 - 32/64 bit	Supplied IBM Java 2 SDK V6 SR4 - 32bit	275MB

• DB2® v9.5: Z, LUW

• DB2® v9: Z, LUW

• DB2® v8: Z, LUW

• DB2® iSeries v5.3

• Apache Derby v10.3.2.1 Network and Embedded

• Apache Derby v10.3.1.4 Network and Embedded

• Informix® v10.1

• Informix® v11

• MySQL® 5

• Oracle® 10g

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005

• DB2® v9.5: Z, LUW

• Apache Derby v10.3.2.1 Network and Embedded

• MySQL® 5

• Oracle® 10g

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005