As an unbiased software program vendor (ISV), we at Primeur embed the Open Liberty Java runtime in our flagship knowledge integration platform, DATA ONE. It’s important that the embedded Java runtime is each invisible to our prospects but observable to our engineers who assist them. Open Liberty, IBM’s open-source Java runtime on which IBM WebSphere Liberty is constructed, was the right resolution for us.
Primeur and DATA ONE
As a sensible knowledge integration firm, we at Primeur consider in simplification. For greater than 35 years, we’ve got been serving to firms from everywhere in the world to speed up their knowledge integration initiatives. This helps be sure that their prospects attain their enterprise targets whereas profiting from their present IT investments and avoiding pointless bills. We mix our prospects’ proprietary methodology with our purpose-built know-how, which runs natively on all the primary architectures, together with IBM zSystems.
Our flagship knowledge integration platform, DATA ONE, is designed to federate totally different applied sciences, platforms, knowledge varieties and deployment fashions, with an intuitive person expertise. It plans, manages and screens integration flows, permitting purchasers to manage knowledge all through its end-to-end lifecycle. Since its launch in 2020, DATA ONE has been efficiently adopted by multinational firms 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 resolution.
Knowledge Shaper, offering any-to-any knowledge 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’ inside structure and software program parts.
Open Liberty is one such software program element (really, a very powerful of all of them) provided that it powers the core DATA ONE knowledge integration choreographies.
We fell in love with Open Liberty for 2 fundamental causes: invisibility and observability. We all know this will seem to be a contradiction however hold 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 will embed, fully 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 aspect 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 probably the most frictionless method 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 following main product model improve.
Throughout this time, prospects increase assist requests to analyze issues that floor within the product however whose root trigger will 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 shortly as potential to restrict the impression on the client’s enterprise.
That is when observability comes into play. Our assist staff wants to observe, hint and usually probe Open Liberty till they’ve recognized the foundation explanation for the issue that the client is seeing.
Open Liberty at Primeur
Since our product leverages each JEE specs and the OSGi structure, and considered 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 forth.
Moreover, throughout our preliminary software program choice course of, Open Liberty got here out as the only option for quite a lot of totally different causes, a few of which have been very distinctive for us as an ISV, others of broad curiosity for any person:
Invisibility and ease of embeddability: Open Liberty will be simply hidden from view, silently put in and silently preconfigured to satisfy particular buyer wants with out the client needing to know that Open Liberty is there in any respect.
Observability: Consistent with IBM custom, Open Liberty gives a variety of problem-determination instruments and strategies. Furthermore, Open Liberty and IBM Semeru JDK are finest 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 will be optimized for various kinds of workloads. Open Liberty permits us to transparently provision a runtime that’s the finest match for every node’s particular workload.
Help: Entry to IBM assist for each Open Liberty and the underlying Semeru JDK mitigates dangers which might be onerous to determine and solves issues.
Updates: Open Liberty is incessantly up to date with safety and non-security fixes. Being such a core element for the DATA ONE product, it’s paramount that we will hold it present simply. With the Liberty zero-migration structure, you may transfer to the newest model of Liberty with minimal impression in your present purposes and configurations.
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z/OS and Primeur
For a few of our key prospects, the z/OS platform is a very powerful atmosphere, so we’re anticipated to supply first-class assist for it.
IBM Semeru Runtime Licensed Version for z/OS and Open Liberty proved to be the right 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 appliance execution. As an ISV, we have been capable of strike the optimum stability between platform-specific optimizations and cross-platform structure consistency, nearly free of charge.
IBM Semeru Runtime Licensed Version for z/OS offers a platform for constructing extremely sturdy, scalable and dependable trendy enterprise apps. Builders can construct batch and transactional apps, microservices and extra by utilizing Java’s APIs, Libraries and frameworks.
Future instructions
DATA ONE is on a cloud trajectory. Over the following few releases, we’ll allow particular parts 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 admire 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 response to our prospects’ preferences and expertise) and enabling our prospects to make the transition from conventional to containerized at their very own tempo.
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