WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 6.0.x   Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
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What is new in this release

This version offers many new and exciting improvements, whether you are new to the product, or making the transition from a prior release.

WebSphere Application Server is a proven, high performance transaction engine that can help you build, run, integrate and manage dynamic business applications. It excels as the foundation for a Service Oriented Architecture, with these main benefits:
Simple, rapid development and deployment

Improve time to value and make the most of existing technology skills, with easy to use features designed to get you to production fast.

Secure and scalable SOA runtime

Rest assured applications and data are safe, and that you can eliminate lost business opportunities with near continuous uptime for mission-critical applications.

Extensible communication services

Increase your return on investment and improve the flexibility of your business by making application services more reusable and accessible to new users, in new ways.

Effective application management

Focus resources on innovation instead of maintenance and reduce the costs of managing your environment, with effective, easy to use management tools.

The following topics catalog the most notable new and changed features, routing you to appropriate information for learning more about each one. Skip ahead to the details that interest you, or continue reading this topic to obtain a higher level view first.

Simple, rapid development and deployment

Improve time to value and make the most of existing technology skills, with easy to use features designed to get you to production fast. Key features include:
  • WebSphere Application Server Toolkit, to help you create, test and deploy applications, including a rapid deployment feature for testing applications in the Version 6.0.x runtime environment
  • Tight integration with Rational tools for additional application building functionality
  • Java Server Faces, a framework that eases the development of Java based Web applications
  • Service Data Objects, a data-centric, disconnected, XML-integrated, data access mechanism that provides a source-independent result set

Secure and scalable SOA runtime

Rest assured applications and data are safe, and that you can eliminate lost business opportunities with near continuous uptime for mission-critical applications.
  • J2EE 1.4, which makes it easier to develop and deploy applications using industry standard tools
  • Web Services Security, with broad support for Web services security specifications and architectural support for plugging in and extending the capabilities of security tokens
  • High Availability Manager, which provides better scaling so more concurrent users can access an application. This can help reduce administrative and licensing costs for companies and provides better flexibility to quickly bring additional user resources on board.
  • A unified clustering framework that brings workload balancing, dependability, and other benefits to the application servers in your heterogeneous environment

Extensible communication services

Increase your return on investment and improve the flexibility of your business by making application services more reusable and accessible to new users, in new ways.
  • Powerful messaging engine. JMS support enables applications to exchange messages asynchronously with other JMS clients by using JMS destinations (queues or topics)
  • Extensive Web services support, which makes it easier to integrate applications inside the enterprise as well as externally with customers, partners and suppliers
  • Tight integration with WebSphere MQ for diverse environments
  • Ability to plug in the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus for service mediation

Effective application management

Focus resources on innovation instead of maintenance and reduce the costs of managing your environment, with effective, easy to use management tools.
  • Web based administrative console
  • Java Management eXtensions (JMX)
  • Tivoli Performance Viewer
  • Tight integration with Tivoli software

Improved platform consistency

This is the first release in which all platforms have been made available at the same time, with the same feature-functionality. Common code and delivery enhance the mobility of applications. You can now deploy your applications on the platforms best suited to your needs, without delay or trade-off.




Sub-topics
What is new for installers
What is new for administrators
What is new for security specialists
What is new for developers
What is new for troubleshooters
Overview and new features for installing an application serving environment
Overview and new features for migrating, coexisting, and interoperating
Overview and new features for administering applications and their environments
Overview and new features for securing applications and their environment
Overview and new features for developing and deploying applications
Overview and new features for monitoring
Overview and new features for tuning performance
Overview and new features for troubleshooting
Related concepts
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification
Release notes - IBM WebSphere Application Server
New features of this documentation
Packaging
Guided activities for the administrative console
Related reference
Deprecated and removed features
Related information
Support site - Fixes by version
Service-Oriented Architecture: Resources for learning
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