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 right answer for us.
Primeur and DATA ONE
As a sensible information integration firm, we at Primeur imagine in simplification. For greater than 35 years, we now have been serving to firms from everywhere in the world to speed up their information integration tasks. This helps be sure that their prospects attain their enterprise objectives whereas taking advantage of their current 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 information integration platform, DATA ONE, is designed to federate completely different applied sciences, platforms, information varieties and deployment fashions, with an intuitive consumer expertise. It plans, manages and screens integration flows, permitting shoppers to regulate information 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:
- Information Mover, a safe file-transfer enterprise answer.
- Information Shaper, offering any-to-any information transformations.
- Information Watcher, for the built-in end-to-end monitoring of dataflows.
Open Liberty: Invisible, but observable for Primeur
As an ISV, we give attention to transport the best-fitting merchandise for our prospects with out burdening them with understanding and managing the merchandise’ inside structure and software program elements.
Open Liberty is one such software program element (truly, a very powerful 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 fundamental causes: invisibility and observability. We all know this may occasionally look like a contradiction however preserve studying to see why it’s not.
Why invisibility?
The attitude of an ISV embedding Open Liberty inside its merchandise is completely different from that of a enterprise buyer putting in Open Liberty on-prem or in a cloud atmosphere to run its enterprise software.
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 transport merchandise, putting in them in probably the most frictionless method at buyer websites, and adopting them for manufacturing is just the start of an extended journey that may final a number of years till the following main product model improve.
Throughout this time, prospects increase help requests to research 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 shortly as potential to restrict the affect on the client’s enterprise.
That is when observability comes into play. Our help workforce wants to watch, hint and usually probe Open Liberty till they’ve recognized the foundation reason for the issue that the client 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 alternative 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 quite a few completely different causes, a few of which had 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 client needing to know that Open Liberty is there in any respect.
- Observability: In keeping with IBM custom, Open Liberty presents a variety of problem-determination instruments and strategies. Furthermore, Open Liberty and IBM Semeru JDK are finest pals, making it simpler to diagnose issues on the JVM stage, too.
- Modularity: DATA ONE is a distributed software fabricated from a number of nodes cooperating at runtime. Nodes are grouped collectively in homogeneous clusters, however completely different clusters may be optimized for several types of workloads. Open Liberty allows us to transparently provision a runtime that’s the finest match for every node’s particular workload.
- Assist: Entry to IBM help for each Open Liberty and the underlying Semeru JDK mitigates dangers which are laborious to determine and solves issues.
- Updates: Open Liberty is regularly up to date with safety and non-security fixes. Being such a core element for the DATA ONE product, it’s paramount that we are able to preserve it present simply. With the Liberty zero-migration structure, you may transfer to the most recent model of Liberty with minimal affect 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 help for it.
IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition 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 Information Entry Accelerator library, which makes use of environment friendly binary-coded decimal operators to leverage the most recent IBM z/Structure decimal and vector-packed-decimal directions to enhance the applying execution. As an ISV, we had been in a position to 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 gives a platform for constructing extremely sturdy, scalable and dependable fashionable 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 following few releases, we’ll allow particular elements and workloads to be optionally containerized and deployed to the cloud. Open Liberty is proving to be the best companion for this journey because of MicroProfile and OpenShift.
As an ISV, we particularly recognize the pliability that the Liberty runtime offers 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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