Video: Thoughts on Liberty: Interview with Alasdair Nottingham

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Video Thoughts on Liberty: Interview with Alasdair Nottingham

Table 1. Thoughts on Liberty: Interview with Alasdair Nottingham. As lead developer for WebSphere Application Server Liberty, Alasdair Nottingham shares his perspectives on Liberty and its value for developers.
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Liberty is a new lightweight, easy to use version of WebSphere Application Server. We asked IBM developers to share their thoughts on what it means for developers ...

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What do you find exciting about Liberty?

5 It's this really simple configuration that you can just go and edit with Notepad. I use Unix on a daily basis and being able to go in and edit it kinda completely breaks the expectation that people have of what WebSphere Application Server is. When we say, "Here is what Liberty is," the look of shock and disbelief of people seeing a runtime that starts in seconds, and is dynamic and flexible and has all the behaviors that Liberty has, I think is really exciting.

Show the developer, Alasdair Nottingham, talking on camera. Alasdair Nottingham is a lead developer for WebSphere Application Server Liberty.

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  • Simple configuration
  • Breaks expectations
  • Dynamic
  • Flexible
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Tell us about a Liberty user experience?

7 We've got jazz.net which is a website hosting a whole lot of technologies around development. I got contacted one day by the jazz.net lead and he said, "I wanted you to that know we just got into production for our download application on jazz.net." He had not come and spoken to the development team or raised any issues. He had just gone ahead and taken an application that previously had been running elsewhere and got it up and running on jazz.net. All he was talking about what how great an experience it was. He said it was easy to tune and to get it to behave correctly. He was really excited.

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  • Great experience
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What would you like to say to developers?

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Well I think the important thing is to try it out. An awful lot of people have preconceptions on what proprietary software is like. Or what IBM software is like, in particular. I really think we have tried very hard to learn from the best examples of good usability.

We've especially been focused around trying to make it good for developers. At the end of the day, I'm a developer. I work with a bunch of developers and we want to write something that is really good for developers to go and use. I think it really enables you to do a lot of thing that you couldn't do before.

It runs in production just as easily. It's completely supported in production environments. That's something that people miss when we say it is a developer focused runtime. It's not to say we aren't trying to provide a runtime for production. It's just saying that by making sure we provide a great developer-friendly runtime, we get a great production-ready runtime at the same time.

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  • Try it out
  • Good for developers
  • Completely supported in production
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