As an impartial software program vendor (ISV), we at Primeur embed the Open Liberty Java runtime in our flagship information integration platform, DATA ONE. It’s important that the embedded Java runtime is each invisible to our prospects but observable to our engineers who help them. Open Liberty, IBM’s open-source Java runtime on which IBM WebSphere Liberty is constructed, was the proper answer for us.
Primeur and DATA ONE
As a sensible information integration firm, we at Primeur consider in simplification. For greater than 35 years, we have now been serving to corporations from everywhere in the world to speed up their information integration initiatives. This helps be sure that their prospects attain their enterprise targets whereas taking advantage of their current IT investments and avoiding pointless bills. We mix our prospects’ proprietary methodology with our purpose-built expertise, which runs natively on all the principle architectures, together with IBM zSystems.
Our flagship information integration platform, DATA ONE, is designed to federate totally different applied sciences, platforms, information varieties and deployment fashions, with an intuitive consumer expertise. It plans, manages and screens integration flows, permitting purchasers to manage information all through its end-to-end lifecycle. Since its launch in 2020, DATA ONE has been efficiently adopted by multinational corporations throughout sectors, together with insurance coverage and banking, automotive, vitality and utilities, manufacturing, logistics and telco.
DATA ONE consists of three modules that may be activated as wanted:
- Knowledge Mover, a safe file-transfer enterprise answer.
- Knowledge Shaper, offering any-to-any information transformations.
- Knowledge Watcher, for the built-in end-to-end monitoring of dataflows.
Open Liberty: Invisible, but observable for Primeur
As an ISV, we deal with delivery the best-fitting merchandise for our prospects with out burdening them with understanding and managing the merchandise’ inner structure and software program elements.
Open Liberty is one such software program part (really, crucial of all of them) on condition that it powers the core DATA ONE information integration choreographies.
We fell in love with Open Liberty for 2 major causes: invisibility and observability. We all know this may increasingly seem to be a contradiction however preserve studying to see why it’s not.
Why invisibility?
The angle of an ISV embedding Open Liberty inside its merchandise is totally different from that of a enterprise buyer putting in Open Liberty on-prem or in a cloud atmosphere to run its enterprise utility.
At Primeur, we are able to embed, utterly configure and function Open Liberty inside our DATA ONE product with out our DATA ONE prospects being conscious that Open Liberty is even there. They should care solely about DATA ONE.
However invisibility is only one facet of the story; we additionally sought one thing that’s seemingly in stark contradiction with invisibility: observability.
Why observability?
As an ISV, we all know that delivery merchandise, putting in them in essentially the most frictionless approach at buyer websites, and adopting them for manufacturing is just the start of a protracted journey that may final a number of years till the subsequent main product model improve.
Throughout this time, prospects increase help requests to analyze issues that floor within the product however whose root trigger may be very distant and well-hidden, particularly in hyper-connected and distributed merchandise like DATA ONE. When this occurs, we have to diagnose the issue as rapidly as attainable to restrict the impression on the shopper’s enterprise.
That is when observability comes into play. Our help staff wants to observe, hint and customarily probe Open Liberty till they’ve recognized the foundation reason behind the issue that the shopper is seeing.
Open Liberty at Primeur
Since our product leverages each JEE specs and the OSGi structure, and certainly one of our platforms on which prospects set up the product is native IBM z/OS, for us, Open Liberty has been a pure selection in comparison with different runtimes like Quarkus, Wildfly, Spring Boot, and so on.
Moreover, throughout our preliminary software program choice course of, Open Liberty got here out as your best option for a variety of totally different causes, a few of which have been very distinctive for us as an ISV, others of broad curiosity for any consumer:
- Invisibility and ease of embeddability: Open Liberty may be simply hidden from view, silently put in and silently preconfigured to fulfill particular buyer wants with out the shopper needing to know that Open Liberty is there in any respect.
- Observability: In step with IBM custom, Open Liberty presents a variety of problem-determination instruments and strategies. Furthermore, Open Liberty and IBM Semeru JDK are greatest associates, making it simpler to diagnose issues on the JVM stage, too.
- Modularity: DATA ONE is a distributed utility manufactured from a number of nodes cooperating at runtime. Nodes are grouped collectively in homogeneous clusters, however totally different clusters may be optimized for various kinds of workloads. Open Liberty permits us to transparently provision a runtime that’s the greatest match for every node’s particular workload.
- Assist: Entry to IBM help for each Open Liberty and the underlying Semeru JDK mitigates dangers which might be onerous to determine and solves issues.
- Updates: Open Liberty is often up to date with safety and non-security fixes. Being such a core part for the DATA ONE product, it’s paramount that we are able to preserve it present simply. With the Liberty zero-migration structure, you possibly can transfer to the newest model of Liberty with minimal impression in your present functions and configurations.
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z/OS and Primeur
For a few of our key prospects, the z/OS platform is crucial atmosphere, so we’re anticipated to supply first-class help for it.
IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition for z/OS and Open Liberty proved to be the proper pillars on which to base the remainder of our DATA ONE product, because of the next capabilities:
- z/OS-specific APIs (the JZOS APIs) that we use to entry z/OS-native datasets.
- Clear exploitation of z/OS JAAS Extensions and zSystems cryptographic {hardware}.
- Keystore implementations, together with RACF keystores, with the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE).
- The Knowledge Entry Accelerator library, which makes use of environment friendly binary-coded decimal operators to leverage the newest IBM z/Structure decimal and vector-packed-decimal directions to enhance the applying execution. As an ISV, we have been capable of strike the optimum stability between platform-specific optimizations and cross-platform structure consistency, nearly totally free.
IBM Semeru Runtime Licensed Version for z/OS gives a platform for constructing extremely sturdy, scalable and dependable trendy enterprise apps. Builders can construct batch and transactional apps, microservices and extra through the use of Java’s APIs, Libraries and frameworks.
Future instructions
DATA ONE is on a cloud trajectory. Over the subsequent few releases, we are going to allow particular elements and workloads to be optionally containerized and deployed to the cloud. Open Liberty is proving to be the perfect companion for this journey because of MicroProfile and OpenShift.
As an ISV, we particularly respect the flexibleness that the Liberty runtime provides us in adapting our DATA ONE deployments to both a conventional mannequin or to a containerized mannequin (in line with our prospects’ preferences and abilities) and enabling our prospects to make the transition from conventional to containerized at their very own tempo.
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