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IBM Open Sources 'WebSphere Liberty' For Java Microservices and Cloud-Native Apps (techrepublic.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the big-data-with-Big-Blue dept.

An anonymous reader quotes TechRepublic: On Wednesday, IBM revealed the Open Liberty project, open sourcing its WebSphere Liberty code on GitHub to support Java microservices and cloud-native apps. The company created Liberty five years ago to help developers more quickly and easily create applications using agile and DevOps principles, according to an IBM developerWorks blog post from Ian Robinson, WebSphere Foundation chief architect at IBM... Developers can also choose to move to the commercial versions of WebSphere Liberty at any time, he noted, which include technical support and more specialized features... "We hope Open Liberty will help more developers turn their ideas into full-fledged, enterprise ready apps," Robinson wrote. "We also hope it will broaden the WebSphere family to include more ideas and innovations to benefit the broader Java community of developers at organizations big and small."
IBM argues that Open Liberty, along with the OpenJ9 VM they open sourced last week, "provides the full Java stack from IBM with a fully open licensing model."

Interestingly, Slashdot ran a story asking "IBM WebSphere SE To Be Opened?" -- back in 2000.

17 comments

  1. TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wow, ain't that slow to load. Seems IBM is going for the cool kids with tech from 70s...

    1. Re: TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nearly all really important software is written in C, C++, Java or C#. Sometimes it's written in a mix of those languages.

      Some people talk loudly about using Ruby, JavaScript or worst of all, Rust, but the software they're working on is irrelevant. If they were working on something important, they'd be using C, C++, Java and/or C#.

    2. Re: TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nearly all really important software is written in C, C++, Java or C#. Sometimes it's written in a mix of those languages.

      Some people talk loudly about using Ruby, JavaScript or worst of all, Rust, but the software they're working on is irrelevant. If they were working on something important, they'd be using C, C++, Java and/or C#.

      Java is a truckload of rotten crap, not even manure which would be useful in agricultural settings. Java software engineers and programmers are incapable of designing and implementing decent code. I recently fired a Java "professional software engineer" because his code was worse than a first semester computer science student.

    3. Re:TFA by lucm · · Score: 2

      Wow, ain't that slow to load. Seems IBM is going for the cool kids with tech from 70s...

      Their blog probably runs on Websphere. Which is not only blazing fast, but also is always a delight to work with, given its exciting Jython api and impenetrable maze of modules and dependencies.

      Here's the Websphere recipe: take tomcat and apache httpd, add a gallon of barf and 2GB of xml files, and make a drunk intern who majored in industrial masonry design the admin GUI. Then make this masterpiece mature in a dutch oven while evil entities from a parallel nightmarish universe fly around it, tainting it with pure malice and the immanent essence of grotesqueness. Of course I don't have evidence that this is the true recipe; the blood of unborn twins may or may not be required. But what I know from experience is that it is truly a piece of shit.

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      lucm, indeed.
    4. Re:TFA by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      make a drunk intern who majored in industrial masonry design the admin GUI.

      How's the security? Perhaps they need a few baton-twirlers.

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    5. Re: TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How about providing some examples of said bad code, along with your credentials and the supposed "professional software engineer's" credentials?

  2. What about open sourcing AIX? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What about open sourcing AIX, ideally under a true open source license like the BSD licence or the MIT licence?

    Sun was able to open source Solaris many years ago, so IBM ought to be able to do the same with AIX.

    Even if some components couldn't be released due to licensing issues, it would still be better to have at least a really basic version of AIX released under the BSD or MIT licences instead of having nothing at all. The community could always replace what couldn't be released.

    With Linux adopting systemd and becoming much more like Windows than any sort of a *nix system, we could really use a reliable, trustworthy, UNIX-style OS like AIX that was open sourced. A community-driven open source port of AIX to x64 hardware would be some superb software to have access to.

    1. Re:What about open sourcing AIX? by lucm · · Score: 2

      What about open sourcing AIX

      Or what about killing it with fire instead?

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      lucm, indeed.
    2. Re:What about open sourcing AIX? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      Then dissolving the ashes in acid, then drying them out and burning them again. And then dissolving them in a different acid.

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    3. Re:What about open sourcing AIX? by lucm · · Score: 1

      ^ people of Slashdot, that's how you can tell when someone has actual experience with AIX; the deep, ice cold hatred is a tell.

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      lucm, indeed.
  3. If it is similiar quality to J9.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's performance, memory consumption, and security are probably all shit.

    You can tell why IBM is open sourcing its code: Because it is no longer marketable and better dumped on the 'community' to support.

    Yay for another dead project dumped into the open source ecosystem.

  4. Who cares? by DaMattster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would love to see IBM open source Lotus Notes and Domino but that will never happen!

  5. First hit is free by tomhath · · Score: 2

    Developers can also choose to move to the commercial versions of WebSphere Liberty at any time, he noted

    In other words, get your application running, albeit poorly at first. Then IBM salemen will descend on you and try to figure out how much you have in your checking account.

    1. Re:First hit is free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do you mean a corporation expects something in return when providing free stuff? Oh gosh, who would have thought...

  6. Careful what you ask for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Notes and Domino have been festering under a rock for a looong time.
    Remove the rock and what you see might not be so nicey nicey.

  7. Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Announcing dupes in the summary now. Your editing qualities must be applauded!

    "Interestingly, Slashdot ran a story asking "IBM WebSphere SE To Be Opened?" -- back in 2000"