WebSphere Application Server Community Edition

Support for open standards and open source

• Supports Java EE, Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) applications, servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java Persistence API (JPA), JavaServer Faces, Java Message Service (JMS) and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) web services.
• Provides an Eclipse-based, simple-server adapter environment for creating, deploying and debugging applications.
• Includes an embedded Apache Derby database with full transactional capability.

Centralized management

• Unifies applications running on the platform under a shared, standards-based security framework based on Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC).
• Supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication against directory servers.
• Provides an interactive graphical interface to deploy, configure and manage applications and related resources.
• Monitors status and performance statistics for multiple servers and graphically displays data for easier analysis.

Customization and advanced capabilities

• Enable you to create lightweight custom application servers by removing components or extending capabilities.
• Let you selectively enable and disable specific components at runtime to improve efficiency.
• Provide an entry point to the full portfolio of middleware products from the IBM WebSphere family.