This IBM® Redbooks® publication, intended for architects, application developers, and system programmers, describes how to design and implement Java web-based applications in an IBM CICS® Liberty JVM server. This book is based on IBM CICS Transaction Server V5.3 (CICS TS) using the embedded IBM WebSphere® Application Server Liberty V8.5.5 technology.

Liberty is an asset to your organization, whether you intend to extend existing enterprise services hosted in CICS, or develop new web-based applications supporting new lines of business. Fundamentally, Liberty is a composable, dynamic profile of IBM WebSphere Application Server that enables you to provision Java EE technology on a feature-by-feature basis. Liberty can be provisioned with as little as the HTTP transport and a servlet web container, or with the entire Java EE 6 Web Profile feature set depending on your application requirements.

This publication includes a Technology Essentials section for architects and application developers to help understand the underlying technology, an Up-and-Running section for system programmers implementing the Liberty JVM server for the first time, and a set of real-life application development scenarios.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part 1. Technology essentials

Chapter 2. Application development

Chapter 3. Workload management

Chapter 4. Security options

Part 2. Up and running

Chapter 5. Developing and deploying applications

Chapter 6. Configuring a Liberty server in CICS

Chapter 7. Configuring the web server plug-in

Chapter 8. Implementing security options

Part 3. Scenarios

Chapter 9. Porting a web application

Chapter 10. Creating an integration logic application

Chapter 11. Creating a business logic application

Part 4. Reference

Chapter 12. Troubleshooting