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Creating a runtime environment with an optional IBM SDK
When you install WebSphere® Application Server traditional beginning with Version 8.5, by default a specific version of IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition is installed with it. After you install WebSphere Application Server, you can optionally create a runtime environment with other versions of the IBM SDK that the application server supports.
Before you begin
- Ensure that IBM WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse is already installed into your Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers workbench and the workbench has been restarted. For installation instructions, see Installing and updating into an existing Eclipse workbench.
- If you are not installing from the Eclipse marketplace, and do not already have the installation files (.zip file) for IBM WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse, download the file from https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/wasdev/entry/download.
About this task
By default, when you install WebSphere Application Server
traditional V8.5, IBM SDK Version 6.0 is installed with it. WebSphere Application Server traditional V8.5 supports IBM SDK Version 7.0, IBM SDK
Version 7.1, and IBM SDK Version 8.0.
These IBM SDKs are optional. After you install WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5, you can install either IBM SDK on it. Earlier versions of WebSphere Application Server, for example Version 7.0 and Version 8.0, do not support optional IBM SDKs. When you move from either of these earlier versions to WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5, you can continue running your existing applications on Version 6 of the IBM SDK. However, you can instead run them on Version 7.0, Version 7.1, or Version 8.0 of the IBM SDK.
WebSphere Application Server versions | Supported IBM SDK versions | IBM SDKs that can optionally be used to create an application server runtime environment |
---|---|---|
7.0 | 6.0 | None |
8.0 | 6.0 | None |
8.5 | 6.0, 7.0, 7.1, ![]() |
7.0 and 7.1 |