This section provides shortcuts to information for obtaining a high level understanding of the product, then getting started quickly.
There are several different computing roles that members of your organization might undertake when working with WebSphere® Application Server.
Use the paths in this topic to deploy applications quickly and easily. This topic provides links that pinpoint the relevant information for reaching your goals quickly. It also describes the audience roles and tasks assumed by this documentation. The fast paths in this topic are intended to help you gain a little experience. The fast paths do not showcase the advanced product features that some users need or want to use in their production environments.
This topic provides information on other WebSphere and IBM® products.
WebSphere Application Server feature packs are a mechanism for providing major new application server function between product releases. By delivering new functions and support for industry standards between product releases, you can more quickly explore and implement new technologies within your business applications in today's rapidly changing business environments.
The topic describes the guided activities that are available in the administrative console. Guided activities lead you through common administrative tasks that require you to visit multiple administrative console pages.
This topic describes how to find tutorials and their accompanying samples, for learning how to accomplish your goals with the product.
The Samples Gallery offers a set of Samples that demonstrate common enterprise application tasks. The Gallery also contains descriptions of where to find additional Samples and coding examples.
The product provides a variety of administrative clients for deploying and administering your applications and application serving environment, including configurations and logical administrative domains.
The WebSphere Application Server product supports various industry standards. This topic lists the specifications and application programming interface (API) documentation supported in current and previous product releases.
This topic introduces the parts of the WebSphere Application Server product. The following diagram shows a product installation.
If you are migrating from an earlier release of WebSphere Application Server, you should be aware of the various features that have been deprecated, stabilized, and removed since Version 5.1.
WebSphere Application Server provides and supports assembly tools that you can use to develop, assemble, and deploy Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) modules.
This topic familiarizes you with the many Web sites containing technical information for understanding and using your WebSphere Application Server product. A wealth of online information is available to complement the product documentation.