Introduction

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This paper describes the experiences using, and measurement results for, an end-to-end performance software stack with IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Version 8 (64-bit) for Linux® on System z® and IBM® DB2® Enterprise Server Edition, Version 9.7 (64-bit).

The Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) benchmark application running on the application server emulates an online stock trading system.

A second scenario involves the IBM HTTP server (IHS) for WAS Version 8, which runs in addition to the application server acting as HTTP transport for WAS.

The scenarios focus on SSL secured communication between the WAS-hosted Web application and client hosts issuing stock trading queries against the Web server application. Hence the SSL secured network connection between the client and the application server is the main focus for the System Under Test (SUT).

There are two scenarios considered for this study:

Securing WAS internal HTTP transport using SSL
Securing IHS HTTP server transport using SSL