[Version 5.0.2 and later]New in this release

IBM WebSphere Application Server offers a world-class infrastructure for open e-business platforms. As the foundation of the WebSphere software platform, WebSphere Application Server provides a rich, e-business application deployment environment with a complete set of application services including capabilities for transaction management, security, clustering, performance, availability, connectivity and scalability.

Several new and improved features are summarized here, with links to more information.

Features that are new or improved are indicated by release level. Technical updates are indicated similarly throughout the documentation. Version 3.5 and Version 4 users will know this as the documentation Revision history or What's New.

[Version 5.0.2]See also the Site Map, available in the top-level navigational view in each online information center. From the Site Map, you can determine updates relative to the documentation at the V5.0 level.

[5.0 only][Version 5.0.1]See also the Site Map, available from the banner of the online information center. From the Site Map, you can determine updates relative to the documentation at the V5.0 level.

Planning, installation, and product migration

New and improved WebSphere Samples Gallery

For more information, see Samples Gallery.

Servers

Applications > EJB modules

Applications > Web modules

Applications > CORBA applications

CORBA clients can access WebSphere CORBA C++ (deprecated) servers and WebSphere EJB servers. In addition, the product provides a basic CORBA environment that can "bootstrap" into the J2EE name space and invoke J2EE transactions. New support includes SSL security for CORBA C++ clients.

Applications > Web services

[Version 5.0.2]WebSphere Application Server Version 5.02 introduces support for Web services for J2EE (JSR-109).

[Version 5.0.2]The new Web services standards are developed for the Java language under the Java Community Process (JCP). These standards include the Java API for XML-based remote procedure call, JAX-RPC (JSR-101), and Web services for J2EE.

[Version 5.0.2]The JAX-RPC standard covers the programming model and bindings for using Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for Web services in the Java language. The Web services standard for J2EE covers the use of JAX-RPC in a J2EE environment, as well as the deployment of Web services implementations in a J2EE server. Both standards are part of the J2EE 1.4 release.

Applications > Application services

Resources > Messaging

Resources > Data access

Applications must be packaged as J2EE 1.3 applications. For more information, see Migrating a version 4.0 data access application to version 5.1.

Security

Environment

System administration

Monitoring and tuning performance

Troubleshooting

Enhanced problem determination features include:




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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 8:07:48 PM CDT    WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, Version 5.0.2
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