WebSphere Application Server

Increase developer productivity

• Provides Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) support and certification.
• Includes the Liberty profile that delivers faster restart time and is small in size for building applications that do not require the full Java EE environment.
• Supports IBM WebSphere SDK Java Technology Edition V7.0 as an optional pluggable JDK. Java 6 is installed with the product and used by default.
• Supports Web 2.0 and Web Mobile, Java batch, XML, Service Component Architecture (SCA), Communications Enabled Applications (CEA), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and dynamic scripting languages.
• Tool bundles available that include WebSphere server adapters and Rational Application Developer.

Deploy and manage applications and services

• Enables you to modernize and reuse existing, packaged and legacy applications and extend them to the web.
• Lets you migrate applications from non-IBM servers such as Tomcat, JBoss and Oracle.
• Includes developer tool options to meet project development needs, enhanced migration toolkit support, and support for the Web 2.0 and mobile toolkit.

Includes the Liberty profile, which is a highly composable, dynamic application server profile.

• Simple configuration; it is a single xml file with text editor friendly syntax
• Dynamic and flexible. The run time loads only what your application needs and recomposes the run time in response to configuration changes.
• The server start is very fast - under five seconds for a basic web application.

Enhance security and control

• Supports Kerberos authentication and single sign-on.
• Provides Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) token support.
• Uses automatic resource management, where the Java framework closes statements and connections to external resources.
• Filters records based on the content of log and trace record extensions. Also tracks the unique IDs of requests.
• Enables you to audit changes made to your application server configuration using repository checkpoints.