Overview

What is JSphere Suite?

IBM JSphere Suite is a comprehensive set of runtimes and supporting tools that help modernize existing applications, build new services, and future-proof your Java estate. All offerings are built on WebSphere Liberty, providing different ways to modernize your existing systems with IBM’s lightweight, modern runtime and more towards Liberty.

Features

What does JSphere do?

IBM Library Support for Open-Source protects your existing apps.

Keep your Java 8, mission-critical apps secure—without a costly rewrite. IBM Library Support for Spring and Struts adds enterprise-grade security, compliance, and stability to legacy frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot 3.2, Apache Struts 1.3). Maintain uptime, reduce risk, and free your teams to focus on innovation. Use this with WebSphere Application Server (WAS, WAS ND), WebSphere Liberty, Red Hat JBoss EAP, and other enterprise Java runtimes.

Explore Library Support for Open-Source

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Modernized Runtime Extension for Java (MoRE) allows use of modern Java while keeping WebSphere admin tools.

MoRE enables Liberty workloads to be managed via WebSphere ND together with traditional WebSphere applications using wsadmin, Admin Console, and scripts. This allows your applications to leverage the features and capabilities of newer Java SE and EE versions while maintaining existing operations with WebSphere ND.

Explore MoRE

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IBM WebSphere Liberty is a fast, flexible, and developer-friendly runtime for enterprise Java applications running on bare metal, in VMs, containers, across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With extensive support for popular frameworks and standards, its revolutionary architecture frees applications from future code and configuration changes while ensuring technical currency.

Dramatically reduce your runtime compute requirements by up to 80% disk and 50%+ memory savings.¹

Every modern runtime in JSphere Suite is built on Liberty.

Explore EAR

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Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) and AMA Developer Tools provide actionable insights to guide your modernization journey.

AMA and AMA Dev Tools (included in EAR, MoRE, and Liberty) provide targeted modernization strategies and capabilities to accelerate efforts to modernize enterprise Java applications running on runtimes like WebSphere Application Server (traditional), Weblogic, Tomcat, and JBoss EAP to run on the modern WebSphere Liberty runtime, adopt up-to-date Java SE and Jakarta EE levels and more. These tools provide customers with 70-80% savings.

Explore AMA

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Use cases

Why JSphere Suite?

Secure & sustain what you won’t modernize

Run your apps securely on Java 8 after community support ends. Experience minimal disruption to ongoing operations with ‘drop-in’ patches

Modernize critical applications with AI-assisted automation

Modernize and build new with ease. IBM has simplified application modernization and dramatically reduced the associated cost and time

Innovate and build new cloud-native & AI-infused applications

Achieve higher productivity, lower costs, and strong security in a modern container runtime.

Case studies

See results across industries

Insurance at scale: from legacy to modern IT

SOMPO Holdings, a 130-year-old Japanese insurance giant, faced challenges with its strained and costly mainframe system due to technical debt and organic growth. IBM helped modernize their legacy COBOL system using IBM WebSphere Liberty, simplifying infrastructure administration, improving developer productivity, and reducing costs. The solution included IBM WebSphere Liberty and IBM Modernization Tooling. This transformation streamlined operations, achieving significant efficiency gains.

54%

CPU core reduction

33%

Memory reduction achieved

Read the Sompo story

Evolving with consumers in a digital-first economy

Rapidly changing consumer habits, especially among the youthful population, demand hyper-personalized, mobile-first financial services. This means higher engagement and informed financial insights. To meet these needs, Alinma Bank has innovated at scale.

Faster time to market with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

Faster delivery of common services with the new super-app

Read the Alinma Bank story

How app modernization and automation drive value

Will automation take our jobs? It’s a question that FlowFactor addresses all the time in its work with a range of enterprises seeking to modernize operations to keep up with—or stay ahead of—the times.

And as FlowFactor implements IBM application modernization and automation solutions to help organizations achieve new levels of efficiency and flexibility, it has a clear answer to that question:

No, automation won’t take your jobs. It will make them better.

Applications modernized

99%

Faster deployments

Read the FlowFactor story

Positioned for ongoing innovation

Insurance companies, like many others, rely heavily on customer service capabilities to differentiate themselves from competitors.

Since deploying the new system, BlueCross hasn’t had any issues with the Liberty update. There have been no problems with code compatibility or functional issues, easing the team’s risk concerns. As for getting the Commercial Desktop team up to speed and comfortable using the new tools within the app, that didn’t take long.

50%

Improved server utilization

70%

Faster deployments

Read the BlueCross BlueShield story

Take the next step

Accelerate your modernization journey with tooling. 
The Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) helps you analyze your entire Java estate, identify modernization paths, and build a migration plan aligned with your application strategy. With built-in insights on effort, cost, and complexity, AMA takes the guesswork out of modernization—empowering you to move from legacy to future estate with confidence. 

Reduce migration time and effort by up to 80%.²
Run AMA anywhere, on-prem, hybrid, or cloud with JSphere runtimes optimized for flexibility and performance.