wasdev_Tom

Personally if I had created an awesome combat robot I would have made it intimidating through silence. Not hearing anything but the distant sounds of liberation and cries of joy as people are liberated would be enough.

Liberty is a lightweight Java Application server - we're not saying that Liberty profile is a lightweight computer program, but it is lightweight for a Java app server (it runs fine on a raspberry pi which has a total of 256MB of RAM and an ARM CPU).

Correct - we use RTC.

We don't tend to use other app servers (it wouldn't be very good if another app server did things we personally wanted that Liberty didn't match or do better would it?). As for making sure that the Liberty profile behaves as it should we look at the specifications for the technologies we implement and follow those.

It's better to do what the specs dictate and implement what our users would find useful than to merely copy and mimic how other application servers work - if we just copied each other then it would limit innovation and not offer real choice to developers.

Yes some of the development team were involved with WAS v6.

I would partially agree with the IE6 analogy in that if you're still using it you should upgrade to a newer, better version (such as v8.5 Liberty profile!)