wasdev_adamg

I deal with the $%#@ customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the @#@$ is wrong with you people?

Love the idea :) I actually sit a building over from some of the Watson team. I'll take a walk over there this afternoon and share the idea.

Conceptually, we have a Liberty Profile and a Full Profile. There are still cases where Full Profile is the right choice (you listed some examples). We have received a lot of positive feedback about Liberty, which means we have received requests to continue to add more capability to Liberty ASAP. We also continue to invest in our Full Profile in response to our customers' needs.

For example, check out our new Beta today on wasdev.net. You'll see early previews of JMS, JAX-WS, MongoDB, etc for Liberty. You'll also find a preview of our new Liberty administration capabilities. We also continue to invest in our Full Profile - just look to some of our recent SpecJ Enterprise performance benchmark publishes. We will continue to listen to your feedback and let it guide our direction accordingly.

EDIT: I should add, that the Liberty architecture allows us to deliver more features without forcing them upon you. As the server is composable, you only configure and use what you need. So if you do not need "large-scale admin capabilities", just ignore it and do not configure your server to use it. You can have a custom-fit environment to fit each application's needs.

It's a bit of seeing an opportunity/innovating and a bit of right place/right time. We saw the need to provide a lightweight application server that is easy for developers but can scale to full-blown enterprise production. Today you tend to have solutions that are strong on one end of the spectrum and not the other. To do both, we had to innovate (new kernel, new config, etc). Once the project started, we slowly grew the team working on it. We continued to pull in those who develop for our our full profile. Our ideas and designs come from around our global team. We have weekly design sessions that anyone in our development team can participate in - whether fresh out of college or with 30+ years of experience. I say a bit right place, right time as people were already working for the the WAS development team. But from there, anyone with ideas and energy can collaborate.

We have a maven plug-in for liberty available here. Check it out and let us know what you think.