You can integrate WebSphere® eXtreme Scale with other products, such as WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition.
You can integrate WebSphere Application Server into various aspects of your WebSphere eXtreme Scale configuration. You can deploy data grid applications and use WebSphere Application Server to host container and catalog servers. Or, you can use a mixed environment that has WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client installed in the WebSphere Application Server environment with stand-alone catalog and container servers. You can also use WebSphere Application Server security in your WebSphere eXtreme Scale environment.
WebSphere Application Server Community Edition can share session state, but not in an efficient, scalable manner. WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides a high performance, distributed persistence layer that can be used to replicate state, but does not readily integrate with any application server outside of WebSphere Application Server. You can integrate these two products to provide a scalable session management solution.
With support for WebSphere Real Time, the industry-leading real-time Java™ offering, WebSphere eXtreme Scale enables Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) applications to have more consistent and predictable response times.
WebSphere eXtreme Scale can be monitored using several popular enterprise monitoring solutions. Plug-in agents are included for IBM Tivoli® Monitoring and Hyperic HQ, which monitor WebSphere eXtreme Scale using publicly accessible management beans. CA Wily Introscope uses Java method instrumentation to capture statistics.