On 21 Mar 2008, at 21:55, Kipper Timmins wrote: > Hrmmm I've been following this thread (slowly) and I have a > question, what > is websphere? It's an application server (actually, a family of servers, but we're talking about the J2EE App Server) made by IBM, broadly competitive with Apache Tomcat and BEA WebLogic. Many enterprise apps require a J2EE server to run on, and pretty much all of those run on WebShere, particularly if you're in a Unix environment. There's also a free (beer) community edition available. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WebSphere_Application_Server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASCE http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/ http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/community/ Cheers Martin -- > Spammers: Send me email -> yumyum at easyweb.co.uk to train my filter > http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/