Understanding updates

All software products can have defects often termed as bugs. Product updates are often released to address known defects. IBM WebSphere has an aggressive product update strategy to keep your product up-to-date, stable, and secure, which will ensure that applications run without issues introduced by defects in the underlying application server. Security is also paramount in WebSphere. Since WebSphere is often part of the public-facing web portal solution for many companies, it is important to ensure that the product has no security holes that can be used by hackers to circumvent security. By understanding how to locate, download, and apply product updates to your WebSphere Application Server, you will need to ensure that, as a product, it is running as error-free as possible. It is also important to understand that application design and configuration can also cause problems. However, by applying updates you will find that the errors are less likely to be caused by a...