Chapter 4. The Infrastructure: Understanding Sametime and WebSphere Application Server Architecture

In Sametime 8.5.2, the majority of the server elements have been moved from the IBM Lotus Domino platform to WAS. Understanding this component of your Sametime infrastructure is important regardless whether you are an experienced Domino administrator, experienced WAS administrator, or new to either system. As you will soon discover, many of the decisions regarding the implementation of a Sametime 8.5.2 environment center on WAS, its requirements, and how it is deployed. No matter the level of your WAS skill set, this chapter will introduce you to the required concepts and how they impact Sametime planning, as well as describing how WAS fits into the Sametime server architecture.

The following scenarios describe examples of environments where you would need to deploy a Sametime server on the WAS platform:

• Phoebe is the administrator of a Sametime 8.5.2 Instant Messaging environment and she wants...